Evolution question?

Question

I have a question about evolution...and I figured I would ask and see if what everyone says..If this sounds like I am being rude, I am not, I am just asking to understand a little bit better...

If we all adapt to our surroundings and we came from Ape's, Why didn't all Ape's adapt as well?
How as well, Did all these Ape's get so far away from eachother in surroundings, If Ape's clearly had no cars, or any kind of transportation? If the Climate weather was so different, wouldn't that mean they would have to be on opposite sides of the world? How did they cross the ocean with the boat?

Once again, I am not being rude...I just would like to better understand?

i meant no boat..or anything to get them across

Ok this is the 150th question today in r/s about evolution...why is it now go somewhere else?

finally some answers!

thank you jedi...I now understand a little more what they are saying

Answer 1

Because evolution in that sense is crappo!!

Ask an evolutionist -

Answer 2

People in this section can be very rude and don't like to help with question rather than preach what they believe. Any way I think a few other people answered it already, The continents haven't always been apart it was once a big land mass called Pangaea and slowly drifted apart, there were land bridges and ice bridges. Also, There has been on concrete evidence that we evolved from apes, And the way humans spread out was by foot, and possibly the use of animals such as Horses, camels etc. There are so many different races from evolution and environment, and later from different cultures breading to create another culture. i.e. Asians and Europeans = Russians or Spain and France= Italians and Haitians and Hispanics =Peurto Ricans !! We are unsure of exactly where humans evolved from, but that's how they spread out. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Let's us go back a few million years to the species from which all primates alive today evolved. Within this species there is some variation, much like there is variation within humans.

Maybe some members of this species can tolerate the cold a little better than others. Maybe some have thicker fur, or a stronger circulatory system, or maybe some are more inclined to huddle together or migrate towards warmer weather when it gets cold.

If it gets too cold, the ones that do not find or have a means to cope with it will inevitably die. Now we have this species in three main groups. The ones that stick together at night, the ones that moved south, and the ones that stayed where they are and just have thicker fur.

Let's look at one of these groups. Let's say the ones that moved south. They are going to mate with eachother and any genetic biased that caused them to move to warmer climate is going to very likely be present in the offspring. But again, in this group, you will still have variation.

Things go on like this and over time this little changes, and traits, and spontaneous mutations eventually lead up to what we call evolution. Eventually maybe the group that moved to warmer climates spawned the bonobos. Maybe the ones that had thicker fur and kept to themselves spawned orangutangs. Maybe the ones that huddled together at night spawned humans.

Every creature on the planet today has a way of coping with it's environment. When the environmet changes, some will die, but some will live, and the ones who live will be able to pass on the trait that allowed them to live.

A modern day chimpazee is no less evolved than a human. A human is simply more sophisticated.

Answer 4

If you would like to understand, take the two minutes to click on the science section. You will get far more complete answers.

Apes did adapt. Just differently according to different environments. THeres a whole branch of biology called evolution of populations; a population being a relatively closed unit of a number of beings as a species. The process is called speciation; the creation of new species through evolution.

They migrated. You'd be surprised how far you could go in billions of years. Additionally, the world was once one continent, and various parts of the world have been connected at different times.

India is exremely hot and arid at times, and it also has monsoons. Deserts burn during the day but freeze at night. Whatever relevance it has, climate can be drastically different in localized areas.

There was no boat, except the boats humans used to populate Oceania (polynesia + Australia) and to cross the bering strait, and for other smaller migrations. Humans only.

Oops I meant millions of years.

Answer 5

1. There is fracturing of the species because not every species lived in the same environment. The great apes in Africa are not humans because they stayed in the bush. Humans were the apes that decided to move into the lowlands and open fields, where standing upright reduced the surface area exposed to the sun.

Additionally, having no trees or bushes to hide in, we needed to adapt methods of defending ourselves out in the open.

2) Pangera was a single land mass, where all the continents we see now in the world were joined. No one used boats to get primates to "South America", they walked. Just like the first caucozoid ancentors walked out of Africa into the Middle East and up into Asian/Europe.

All of which happened over millions of years, we didn't leave Africa as fully developed homo sapiens, we left as primate forms of our selves.

Answer 6

Apes are adapted. Every ape is adapted to its natural surroundings. For example, they have prehensile feet, which make climbing trees far easier.

And apes are present all over the world because they spread over thousands of years. Humans spread from africa to all over the world in a few thousand years, and we didn't have any cars or transportation either. Organisms will naturally spread into any hospitable environment.

Answer 7

Evolution is a continuous process and takes place in different direction at different rates according to situation. The apes we see now are also descendants of their primates just as us human beings
However to go for a lighter answer to your question I would say the liberals of apes changed to humans and the conservatives remained as apes

Answer 8

The apes are better jungle creatures than our common forebears. We went out on the plains, stood up to see predators and prey over the grass and picked up a rock.

All native apes, save man, live in areas that were connected by land bridges during periods of glaciation (ice ages).

Answer 9

well we don't exactly come from apes we come from ape like ancestors(we share a common ancestor with modern apes)
evolution is basically mutation if the mutation makes something more successful it will survive and have more offspring those making it more successful apes just evolved into a different animal then humans so its 98% the same DNA from the ancestor and 2% different they are just on a different evolutionary branch

Answer 10

The continents haven't always been in the position they are now. Also, there have been land bridges, ice bridges, and floating debris that a small mammal could float on for some time. There are plenty of ways for a land bound organism to cross vast expanses of water.

Answer 11

Here are a few books that You can Investigte for yourself that may answer your question:
From Evolution to Creation by Dr. Gary Parker
Not By Chance by Dr Lee Spetner
Science and Creation by Dr Donald E. Chittick
One Blood by Ken Ham
Darwin's Black Box by Dr Michael J. Behe