If humans evolved from monkey's/apes, why are they still here?

Question

If humans evolved from monkey's/apes, why are they still here?
should't they be gone if they involved into humans??

Answer 1

The theory of evolution doesn't say that we evolved FROM apes. It says we have a COMMON ancestor. We evolved alongside each other, from the same sources.

Answer 2

This is a constantly appearing misconception that creationists seem to think 'proves' some gap in the evolutionary science. In fact, it just proves how uneducated some people are because they continute to perpetuate this idea without really understanding it.

As was pointed out a number of times, HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS/APES!!! Evolutionists don't say that, people who disbelieve evolution do. Humans and monkeys/apes have a common ancestor from whom we both evolved, though in different ways. The cousin analogy is a useful one for understanding.

You and your second cousin, twice removed, are related. Not because you are the same, or because one evolved from the other, but because somewhere in the past you both have a common ancestor, to whom you are both related, where your two family trees converge. However, just because you are derived from the same family as him/her, doesn't mean that they can't also exist. Just because your family went one way, and their family went another, doesn't mean that you must be the same, or that you both can't exist.

So, your question is based on a complete misconception.

Answer 3

Because they evolved from our common ancestor too. We humans got smarter. The great apes, including chimpanzees, got stronger. They are stronger than us humans. (A 180-pound chimp would wipe the floor with a 180-pound human, even a college wrestler.)

Here is a little something extra for you, what the Cajuns call "lagniappe", like the free cookie the baker gives the kids when Mom buys a big birthday cake:

Back in 1776, monarchists (Monarchists are people who want to be ruled by a king or queen, not butterfly fanciers.) argued against democracy as a form of government. They said it was absurd to believe that "All men are created equal" because anyone could see men came in different heights, weights and colors. Case closed.

My point is not about democracy. It is about debate. Before you argue about something, you should understand it. If you don't understand it, you'll look foolish. One night on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, Gilda Radner argued vehemently against the "Deaf Penalty", instead of the "Death Penalty". She looked absurd and we all laughed until the beer came out our noses, which was what she wanted. You don't want people to laugh at you.

In a serious debate, you should understand the other side. Note that I didn't say "Believe". Understanding is not the same as believing. If you were to study 20th century European Political history, you would have to understand several forms of government: communism (the USSR), fascism (Germany, Italy), socialism (Lots of countries), socialist democracy, capitalistic democracy and constitutional monarchy. You would not believe in all of them; you COULD not believe in all of them at once. If you tried, your head would explode. You would, however, have to understand their basic concepts.

If you were to study comparative religion, you would have to understand what Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists and Confucians believe. You would not have to convert to a new religion every week, but you would have to understand the other ones. You would not get very far in your studies if you dismissed all the other ones as "wrong". They believe their path is the right one just as strongly as you believe your path is the right one.

99% of the biologists alive today believe that species evolve, and that the theory of evolution is the best explanation we have for the diversity of life. Christian biologists, Jewish biologists, Muslim biologists, Hindu biologists, Buddhist biologists; Australian, Bolivian and Chinese biologists; 99% of them believe it is the best explanation. Yes, it is only a theory. Planetary motion - the theory that the earth went around the sun, not vice versa - was only a theory for a long time. Some people still don't believe it.

Your question has been answered, hundreds of times, by people more versed in biology than I. It gets answered ever week here at YA.

If you are truly curious, ask your minister to give you a short, reasoned explanation of evolution. If he says he can't because it is wrong, he is as ignorant as those monarchists I mentioned above.

Answer 4

Humans are just another type of Ape. Somewhere back in time we shared a common ancestry, only likely were separated by differing continents or something and evolved and adapted to different conditions. Humans are still evolving, like every other species, just now we are evolving much slower because we adapt our environment instead of adapting to it.We are also weakening our species by protecting the weak and the less intelligent members of our species.

Answer 5

Because, like humans, the modern monkeys and apes also evolved from earlier monkeys and apes, but clearly not at different rates and in different directions. Why do different species of cat exist? Because they all evolved from earlier primitive cats. Lions did not evolve from tigers, did they?

Answer 6

They didn't. They both evolved from a common ancestor. That common ancestor is gone.

Although, that common ancestor probably looked similar to an ape, and if we could see it, we'd probably call in an ape, so it's not that wrong to say that we evolved from apes. It just isn't the ape of today.

Answer 7

We DIDN'T evolve from monkeys/apes; several million years ago we all shared a common ancestral form, which spread and diverged into different species, as shown by the fossil record and DNA evidence. See http:www.//talkorigins.org/

Answer 8

The process that makes species separate from each other takes hundreds of thousands of years. Species don't simply disappear when new ones emerge, they can co-exist, unless environmental factors favor one or the other, then one may decline while the other flourishes. To use a video-game metaphor, if you follow; early Nintendo games still exist even though three or so generations of systems have supplanted them, the company didn't recall all the cartridges so they could be melted down and developed into new ones. ( That's the best allusion I can think of right now!)

Answer 9

We didn't evolve from monkeys or apes, we evolved from a different branch, of species. It was called hominids, all though we are mammals, and primates like monkeys and apes, we did not evolve from them, they evolved separate.

Answer 10

We didn't evolve from monkeys and, technically, we are apes.

Humans and other primates share a common ancestor. Think of it like your own family tree; you and your cousin also both share a common ancestor in your family, right? Same thing with humans and other primates.

At one point in history humans branched off from the common ancestor and went one way evolutionarily that led to modern humans and the other primates went another way that led to chimps/gorillas/orangutans, etc.