If humans evolved from monkeys, why can't monkeys talk?

Question

Doesn't the fact that monkeys can't talk prove that humans and monkeys are completely unrelated? If you saw a human who could talk and another human who couldn't, wouldn't you assume that the two aren't related?

For the same reason, humans can't be related to monkeys! There are too many differences. I can't think of a single similarity between humans and chimpanzees that is any less superficial than, say, the similarity between a rhinoceros and a rhinoceros beetle! Can you?

Answer 1

LOL - I see no scientific journals have landed on your doorstep lately.

Monkeys can't speak because they don't have the same jaw, tongue and vocal cord structure we do. But apparently you've missed the gorillas and chimpanzees who do communicate, often complex concepts, through sign language.

Genetic links between man and chimp - http://cmm.ucsd.edu:16080/varki/varkilab/B081%20copy.pdf


You will believe as you wish to believe; for some reason the thought that we could have commonalities disturbs you deeply. Be as you wish to be - believe as you wish to believe. However, don't spout your beliefs as truth.

Answer 2

Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn't evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees. Scientists believe this common ancestor existed
5 to 8 million years ago. Shortly thereafter, the species diverged into two separate lineages. One of these lineages ultimately evolved into gorillas and chimps, and the other evolved into early human ancestors called hominids. There have been at least a dozen different species of these humanlike creatures. Many of these hominid species are close relatives, but not human ancestors. Most went extinct without giving rise to other species. Some of the extinct hominids known today, however, are almost certainly direct ancestors of Homo sapiens. While the total number of species that existed and the relationships among them is still unknown, the picture becomes clearer as new fossils are found. Humans evolved through the same biological processes that govern the evolution of all life on Earth.

Answer 3

you display an ignorance of evolution that comforts me. Monkeys can't talk because they didn't evolve to. we did. That's why we happen to rock so hard.
"There are too many differences. I can't think of a single similarity between humans and chimpanzees that is any less superficial than, say, the similarity between a rhinoceros and a rhinoceros beetle! Can you?"

A 98% similar DNA structure is the definition of unsuperficial. i doubt rhinos and beetles have that level of similarity. evolution doesn't work physically, it works genetically. random genetic mutations occur (fact) that create physical differences (fact), and IF there is fierce competition for survival, then natural selection kicks in. For us there was and people with stronger communication won. for the apes, there wasn't so it didn't. they can and do communicate, just not as verbally advanced. and we communicate mostly non-verbally anyway, haven't you heard that?

thanks again for making me feel smart.

Answer 4

I have a cousin that can't talk, does that mean we aren't related?

Humans and monkeys evolved differently. Monkeys can make plenty of sounds that humans can not. Of course, my sister can make sounds and hear sounds that I can not, simply because she is female.

Humans and chimps (which are not monkeys) have the same number of limbs. We are genetically very similar. We can communicate (sign language). A rhinoceros and a rhinoceros beetle... none of those things are true.

Monkeys can not talk due to their mouths and vocal chords being a bit different from our own. Additionally, they have brains which are somewhat different from our own.

Answer 5

Humans and apes have common ancestors. Apes are not monkeys. Creationists are closely related to monkeys. You can't think of any similarities because you don't know much about it, or won't admit that you do, which is worse. Why not start with tool use among chimpanzees? Then you might look at skeletons. What about DNA? You are more closely related to bony fish than ever you imagined.

Answer 6

Babies can't talk, but nevertheless they are humans.

If I saw an adult human who didn't speak English, I wouldn't consider them less of a human; I would merely assume they spoke a different language. With such examples as Braille and various sign languages, I know that many languages appear starkly different from my own. Monkeys may have some other language that we simply don't recognize as such; while chimps--some of them *can* communicate through American Sign Language.

One similarity between humans and chimpanzees is that we both carry our skeletons on the inside. Another: we are both subject to nicotene addiction. Is there a sense in which these similarities are superficial?

How are rhinos and beetles alike?

Answer 7

We did not evolve from monkeys. It's actually the other way around. Monkeys were once human , a Jewish tribe who angered God so he abased them by changing them into monkeys and swine. That's why the only 2 animals who have organs that can be transplanted are the pig and monkey, given they were once human. According to the Quran

60. Say (O Muhammad SAW to the people of the Scripture): "Shall I inform you of something worse than that, regarding the recompense from Allâh: those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allâh and His Wrath, those of whom (some) He transformed into monkeys and swines, those who worshipped Tâghût[] (false deities); such are worse in rank (on the Day of Resurrection in the Hell­fire), and far more astray from the Right Path (in the life of this world)."

Answer 8

Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Humans and monkeys share an ancestor. That means tens of thousands of years ago, they had a common ancestor. That means that this ancestor didn't have the ability of speech, but as the ancestor evolved in certain areas, it began to get the cognitive ability to speak.

Answer 9

DNA sequences are only one line of evidence illuminating evolutionary relationships. For example, human and chimpanzee DNA is 98% identical, and genetic sequencing can tell us exactly where in the genome those few DNA differences are - but anatomical, behavioral, and developmental studies are also crucial in deeply understanding our differences, similarities, and shared evolutionary history.

In addition, there is remarkable similarity between the proteins of humans and those of other great apes - you would have known this if you had researched Evolution.

Answer 10

For scientific reasons why so-called evolution theory is wrong see these websites; www.forbiddenarcheology.com
www.humandevolution.com

Founder of ISKCON, Prabhupada's arguments below as way of joking remarks. For scientific reasons see the website above.

Why the monkey does not produce a human being?
According to the arguement of Darwin, monkey is the forefather of Darwin. Better kill them so that there is no opportunity of criticism that "You are coming from monkey." You extinct this species. It is rather insulting. If I say that you are descendant of monkey, then it is insult. So extinct this monkey.

That means that individual person has left. That is the proof, that is the proof of individual soul. Just like there are so many plants of the same species. One is dead. That individual plant is dead, but other species are living. It is not extinct. How can you say the species is extinct? How you can say? Darwin's forefather might be extinct. But the monkeys are there.

Prabhupada spoke about evolution quoting from Bhagavad gita, which states that dehi (atma in the body) changes from one body to another body (deha).

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. Bhagavad-gita (2.13)
PURPORT
Since every living entity is an individual soul, each is changing his body every moment, manifesting sometimes as a child, sometimes as a youth, and sometimes as an old man. Yet the same spirit soul is there and does not undergo any change. This individual soul finally changes the body at death and transmigrates to another body; and since it is sure to have another body in the next birth

Changing the apartment. It is not the fact that apartment is becoming a different apartment. This room cannot develop into another room. But I, the resident of this room, can go from this apartment to another apartment. Or I can create another apartment.