Humans are a type of ape. Humans and chimpanzees are both descended from a type of creature which I will call Ape A. Gorillas and Ape A are both descended from another creature which I will call Ape B. Orang-Utans and Ape B are both descended from a creature which I will call Ape C.
Ape C and all other apes and monkeys are descended from a lemur-like creature.
2007-03-06 11:01:53
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answered by Gnomon 6
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We're descended from apes, if that's what you mean. Our ancestors branched off from great apes about five million years ago. The other branch led to the chimpanzees and bonobos.
2007-03-06 18:57:43
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. It was called the Ape Genome Project, and it involved billions of bananas worth of clams.
2007-03-06 18:53:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Well.....it depends....I think that no, humans were made from God, not from apes. But in the scientific way then yes they did.
2007-03-06 18:49:16
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answered by Elizabeth. 2
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There are two theories; one of creationism and the other of evolution. I for one, believe in creationism and that we were created by God, we did not evolved from apes.
I will give you two links to look at, I am aware that educational systems promote evolution.
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Evolution: The belief we came from apes
The theory of universal common descent proposes that all organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor or ancestral gene pool.
Evidence for common descent is inferred from traits shared between all living organisms. In Darwin's day, the evidence of shared traits was based solely on visible observation of morphologic similarities, such as the fact that all birds, even those which do not fly, have wings.
Today, there is strong evidence from genetics that all organisms have a common ancestor. For example, every living cell makes use of nucleic acids as its genetic material, and uses the same 20 amino acids as the building blocks for proteins.
The universality of these traits strongly suggests common ancestry, because the selection of many of these traits seems arbitrary.[43]
Study of evolution
Evolutionary biology
History of modern evolutionary thought
Main article: History of evolutionary thought
Gregor Mendel's work on the inheritance of traits in pea plants (pisum sativum) laid the foundation for genetics, a field greatly associated with evolution.
Charles Darwin at age 51, just after publishing The Origin of Species.Although the idea of evolution has existed since classical antiquity, being first discussed by Greek philosophers such as Anaximander, the first convincing exposition of a mechanism by which evolutionary change could occur was not proposed until Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace jointly presented the theory of evolution by natural selection to the Linnean Society of London in separate papers in 1858.
Shortly after, the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species popularized and provided detailed support for the theory.
However, Darwin had no working mechanism for inheritance. This was provided in 1865 by Gregor Mendel, whose research revealed that distinct traits were inherited in a well-defined and predictable manner.[44]
In the 1930s, Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian inheritance were combined to form the modern evolutionary synthesis. In the 1940s, the identification of DNA as the genetic material by Oswald Avery and colleagues, and the articulation of the double-helical structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick, provided a physical basis for the notion that genes were encoded in DNA. Since then, the role of genetics in evolutionary biology has become increasingly central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
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Creationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism
The term creationism is most often used to describe the belief that creation occurred literally as described in the book of Genesis (for both Jews and Christians) or the Qur'an (for Muslims).
The terms creationism and creationist have become particularly associated with beliefs about the time frame of creation, conflicting with mainstream churches, and also with scientific understanding of Earth's history, particularly evolution.
This conflict is most prevalent in the United States, where there has been sustained controversy in the public arena, centering over the issue of the science curriculum in public schools.
In a Christian context, many creationists adopt a literal interpretation of the Biblical creation narratives, and say that the Bible provides a factual account, given from the perspective of the only one who was there at the time to witness it: God.
This literal interpretation requires the harmonisation of the two creation stories, Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25, which require interpretation to be consistent [5][6]. They seek to ensure that their belief is taught in science classes in schools (see Young Earth Creationism, for example). Opponents reject the claim that the literalistic Biblical view meets the criteria required to be considered scientific.
Almost all churches teach that God created the cosmos.
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2007-03-06 19:08:44
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answered by Carlene W 5
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No, we made ourselves. But technically we are apes.
2007-03-06 18:53:47
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answered by Anonymous
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nope.. humans were not made by apes.. humans were made by other humans.. cheers.
2007-03-06 18:51:29
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answered by audionaut 3
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No there is no way that I can believe this theory.
2007-03-06 18:53:13
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answered by ncgirl 6
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no
2007-03-06 18:52:28
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answered by Anonymous
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