if we came from monkeys why are there so many monkeys around?

Answer 1

They are the retard left overs OR they look at us and say - Not for me dude! I'm happy with me 'nana's and apples.

Answer 2

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 impact. 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.

Answer 3

At school, I was told that Darwin didn't say that the man derives from the monkey, but both of them are a product of evolution. I guess it is right. I really don't believe men come from monkeys! I think the most ancient men were very different from us, but not monkeys.

Answer 4

This surprisingly common argument reflects several levels of ignorance about evolution. The first mistake is that evolution does not teach that humans descended from monkeys; it states that both have a common ancestor.

The deeper error is that this objection is tantamount to asking, "If children descended from adults, why are there still adults?" New species evolve by splintering off from established ones, when populations of organisms become isolated from the main branch of their family and acquire sufficient differences to remain forever distinct. The parent species may survive indefinitely thereafter, or it may become extinct.

Answer 5

And, of even deeper interest, why do so many of the more retarded ones keep posting this same question?

Betcha haven't even *read* 'Evolution of Species', have you? No, of course not., That would be way too much like 'work' and then, even worse, you'd have to 'think'. It's so much easier to let someone do the thinking for you.

Evolution does *not* say we evolved from monkeys. It says that both we and monkeys had a common ancester.

HTH ☺


Doug

Answer 6

Monkeys are in evolutionary view our "cousins". We have the same ancestral species somewhere in the past, but since our lines separated, we evolve side by side with monkeys.

Answer 7

Who came from a Monkey?
Speak for yourself Buddy.

Answer 8

Hang around for another million years and see how many monkeys there are then - evolution is great.

You don't believe we were created from Adam's rib ? I've a little more faith in Darwin's idea

Answer 9

In that case why are those monkeys not evolving into us/humans ???????
That shows that we didnot come from monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

so we can look at them and say, look thats where we came from