Evolutionist believe we come from apes,why aren't apes still turning into humans today?

Answer 1

I think you are mistaken. Humans didn't evolve FROM apes, we evolved WITH apes. At one point in distant history humans and apes had a common ancestor. This common ancestor had particular mutations that allowed it to diverge into the two similar, but separate, humans and apes. Our roughly 99% genetic similarity with chimps is a result of a common ancestor millions of years ago.

Answer 2

If by ape you mean modern apes then you are wrong. Modern humans and today's apes evolved from ape-like hominids of which many branches existed. Modern apes evolved alongside humans for hundreds of thousands of year until they reached the present day species. Now the reason why apes are are still apes and humans are humans is because of natural selection and the environment. Through a series of tiny accidents and experiences, humans gradually acquired knowledge and because of this developed larger brains which resulted in what we are today. In the case of apes they are still apes could be because they didn't adapt intellectually and the DNA mutations necessary for human characteristics and intelligence did not materialize. In other words, survival of the fittest.

Answer 3

Its not something that would happen overnight. The evolution of micro-organisms took millions of years.

Technically any living thing can evolve over time into a new species that is greatly smarter than its ancestor. It is possible that current day apes could evolve into something more intelligent 20 million years from today. It is very unlikely that they would be classified as "humans".

The theories have changed over the years of the evolution of primates into modern day man "homo sapien". There are theories now that two separate lines of species decended long ago and Neandertal Man was indeed a completely independent lineage from ours that died off as we succeeded.

Another theory exists that is along the lines that once a species gains the intelligence level we have, no other species progress to that level in the same ecosystem. However if we destroy our environment and all current humans die. It is possible that another species such as the cockroach could evolve over millions of years into a species similar to the intelligence we have today.

Answer 4

Because the conditions are not the same. The exact same natural selective forces believed to have influenced human evolution, are not acting on present day apes.

Apes, and all living things are constantly evolving. Evolution is a response to changes within the environment which act to select traits passed on to the next generation. Evolution however is not goal orientated - I.E. becoming human is not something apes are striving, consciously or not, to obtain. They will evolve into whatever they evolve into depending on what mutations or traits prove beneficial in their populations.

Answer 5

We evolved from great apes because there was a need to, it also was due to genetic mutations that carried on to the next generation. Apes didn't turn into Humans, they turned into our ancestors, like the neandathals, Homo-sapien sapiens, and homo-sapiens. The process took millions of years. The reason why apes dont change into Modern Humans is because there is no need for them to and the gap between each anthropodic creature took millions of years, for instance current human beings have been around for at least 50, 000 years. Perhaps in the distant future Modern humans might evolve slightly more.

Answer 6

Apparently there was a speciation event where one population of apes was genetically isolated from another so that there could be no interbreeding between populations. One set of 'apes' may have been exposed to different environmental conditions in which some were able to survive and others could not. The ones that survived however eventually speciated to such an extent that they could no longer interbreed with the original population. They would have been the anscestors to early humans. The other population of apes would not have been exposed to these conditions so they would have stayed the same. This is called Allopatric speciation.

Answer 7

Not only is are apes only our close relatives, classification wise, but evolution takes millions of years to make markedly noticeable difference. We can not notice the difference because we have not been taking a lot of detailed notes about the animals until the last few hundred years. I mean, we thought that gorillas were just a myth until the 1800's when someone exploring some kind of jungle found a dead one and brought the corpse to Europe.

Answer 8

Evolution says organic and organic systems instruct substitute over the years. organic determination could mean that individuals of a particular inhabitants that exhibit much less favorable characteristics are much less possibly to bypass those characteristics on, yet no longer something could EVER mean an entire annihilation situation which you describe. that should DISPROVE evolution. Species diverge in reproductively remoted populations, no longer as a results of fact a million/2 the inhabitants lacks a mutation and dies out, that in simple terms happens in small straight forward organisms that reproduce immediately (micro organism, bugs). Little issues like this the place inadequate practise in faculties finally ends up in incomplete information makes "doubt" the place there should not be any.

Answer 9

No evolutionist believes the we came from apes, so your question is extremely ill-informed. If you wish to debate the merits of your position, then you need to be accurate and precise in your understanding of both your position and your opponent's.

Apes and man evolved from a common ancestor, over 3 million years ago. Since the entire recorded history of man is less than 6000 years, we would hardly be in the position to notice changes that take tens of thousands of years in apes, much less in man.

Answer 10

Better read that assignment a little closer. I think you'll find that they say have a common ancestor. Just like all of us came from Adam and Eve. Which means we all had a common ancestor.
It doesn't mean we all came from each other.

It may seem like a small difference. But that is sort of a straw man fallacy. You make a ridiculous statement and attribute it to someone else. But your opponents aren't making the claim you assert.