(Dumb question gets dumb answers)
2007-03-06 09:07:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are still monkeys for two reasons.
1) They don't want to move, and wish to stand still.
2) They want fresh alcohol, so they hang around the still.
2007-03-06 09:16:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People who misundertand evolution often pose the question of why monkeys are no longer evolving to be humans. They fail to grasp that 1. evolution is not teleological; that humans do not sit on top of some evolutionary "ladder" to which lower life forms are climbing; and 2. that while monkeys, apes and humans share relatively recent (in geological time) ancestry, each species is evolving in an independent direction (like branches on a tree).
Having said that, it appears as though many apes and monkeys are undergoing rapid selection for increased intelligence. This may be a result of having to adapt to their ecosystems undergoing rapid change from human impacts. University of Chicago geneticist Chung I-Wu compared the DNA sequences of genes expressed in brain function among chimps, humans and several species of Old World monkeys. Wu found that the brains of chimps and the monkeys are rapidly evolving for increased intelligence, while those of humans have been static for the last few thousand years.
2007-03-06 17:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can find a scientific publication that states that humans evolved from monkeys, then I'll address the question. If not, then why ask questions about non-existent ideas??
2007-03-06 17:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, we did not come from monkeys. We did evolve from a common ancestor though.
Additionally, where I live, we have Cope's Grey Treefrogs and Common Grey Treefrogs. We know that the Cope's variety came from the common ones, yet they both exist. Apple maggots are another example. They didn't exist only a few hundred years ago, but both they and the species from which they originated still are alive, but no longer interbreed. Speciation does not require extinction of one species and there is nothing in evolutionary law which indicates that it does.
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2007-03-06 18:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by Geoffrey J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We didn't come from monkeys. We evolved from the same common ancestor as monkeys did.
2007-03-06 17:14:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Seems like some of our ancestors had more sense.
2007-03-06 17:20:25 · answer #6 · answered by Tori M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's no way to talk about the atheists. Shame on you.
2007-03-06 17:19:56 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're getting one of my classic answers to suit the classic question-
I just farted.
2007-03-06 17:14:16 · answer #8 · answered by billthakat 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
some are slower than others??? thats why not all have turned into Humans lol
2007-03-06 17:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And if we're all from adam and eve then we're all inbred.
2007-03-06 17:15:47 · answer #10 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋