if evolution is real and we claim humans came from monkeys, why ever since no monkeys have changed to human?

Answer 1

You're one of the serious ones, aren't you? *sigh*

Evolution isn't a ladder. "Monkeys" aren't on a rung just below humans. Humans and some great apes evolved from the same common ancestor.

Answer 2

Because there is no direction to evolution.

What you say would be a legitimate question were a driving force, an end result or a teleological aspect to be part of evolutionary theory. (This WAS part of evolutionary theory before Darwin. Darwin's great contribution was to describe an undirected evolution). Now if we did have an end result that evolution "aimed" at then we would be saying that by nature monkeys "progress" to humans. The Darwinian theory says that:

1. Monkeys change
2. Nature selects the changes best adapted to the environment.

Monkeys have changed since the change that lead to the apes that lead to man. They have changed, but without direction, they've not "progressed" nor "regressed", they've just changed. There are different monkey species about now than when our line split from the monkeys.

Answer 3

That has never been the claim of the evolutionist. The assert that there was a common ancestor. I assert that since viruses have had billions of generation come and go from the first time man was able to verify their existence with no crossing into a higher form of life that evolution is hard to prove. Yes indeed they have changed becoming many varieties of viruses yet they have never leaped out of their species to become something other than a virus. Billions of generations. Seems like something should have happened by now. There hasn't been that many generations of mammals since the last extinction event. Evolution doesn't stand up under close examination..... Jim

Answer 4

Good grief, some scientist observed that only monkey's have an opposable thumb, like us-it was also found we have a lot of similaries in other ways. I receive an email from a Bible expert who does not believe what I do. I believe we are all evolving-from the first man to the current man.

Answer 5

you might need another 10 million years and a few asteroids.
there has to be extinctions to change the power
(but the muslims are working on that) :~)
Enlightenment just came in the last few hundred years. Even then the religions kept us ignorant by making evolution a sin. but they have the power over the foolish.
Keep an eye on the Jesus bones, it might be interesting.

Answer 6

Not this question again! We have a common ancestor! They are, they have just found groups of chimps that are fashioning spears to hunt with. Evolution takes a REALLY long time, humans have only been around to watch it for a blink or two.

Answer 7

Since some of the previous answerers have already explained this well enough, I'm only going to add that if you resort to Yahoo Answers to answer a question like this rather than actually reading the existing body of material to know that such a question is completely off-base, you really don't yet have the right to discuss the topic.

Answer 8

Environmental pressures within an ecosystem determine evolutionary adaptation- not every species is programmed to evolve into apex predators like man. Unique circumstances within his environment are the sole reason for man's rise to dominance over other species.

Answer 9

People who ask this question make me wonder if humans really did evolve from monkeys or did monkeys evolve from humans.

Answer 10

If you knew anything about evolution (like what 8th graders learn), you would know that this question makes you look incredibly ignorant.