If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Answer 1

When evolution takes place it doesn't mean that an entire species evolves. It just means that 2 monkeys have an offspring that was a little further evolved. It then takes thousands of years for the pairing of these offspring and then another step up.

Answer 2

Because we all evolved from a distant ancestor. Genetically we all started at this ancestor but as the years progressed, and the descendants evolved, the 'family tree' of different genetic offshoots of the original sprang up. Most were a dead end and died out. Some carried on, continually evolving and changing, until we have the few 'branches' of the family tree that survived into modern times including man, and the many different kinds of monkeys and apes. So really, we didn't evolve from monkeys and apes as we know them today, but we all evolved from a common simian ancestor.

Answer 3

Man and Monkeys & Apes have a common ancestor. The modern human evolved from a biped that evolved from that common ancestor. Monkeys and apes did not go through the same series of changes and developments that the non-modern ancestor of the modern human.

Answer 4

This question gets asked so often that some answerers in Religion & Science have made a drinking game of it - much like the TV show "Frasier", when Frasier, Niles and Martin all watched "Antiques Road Show" together. In the episode, every time someone said "veneer" they would all take a drink; Niles and Frasier of a fine wine, Martin of Raineer Ale. You may get some answers that say "Swig" or "Gulp" or "Thanks for the excuse to drink". That's what they mean. If you do a search on "still monkies", "still monkeys" and "still apes" you'll get roughly 2 - 3 per day since YA started.

Here is a short answer:

Because they evolved from our common ancestor too. We humans got smarter. The great apes, including chimpanzees, got stronger. They are stronger than us humans. (A 180-pound chimp would wipe the floor with a 180-pound human, even a college wrestler.) I don't expect you to believe that, but if you try hard enough you can understand it.

Here is a little something extra for you, what the Cajuns call "lagniappe", like the free cookie the baker gives the kids when Mom buys a big birthday cake:

Back in 1776, monarchists (Monarchists are people who want to be ruled by a king or queen, not butterfly fanciers.) argued against democracy as a form of government. They said it was absurd to believe that "All men are created equal" because anyone could see men came in different heights, weights and colors. Case closed.

My point is not about democracy. It is about debate. Before you argue about something, you should understand it. If you don't understand it, you'll look foolish. One night on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, Gilda Radner argued vehemently against the "Deaf Penalty", instead of the "Death Penalty". She looked absurd and we all laughed until the beer came out our noses, which was what she wanted. You don't want people to laugh at you.

In a serious debate, you should understand the other side. Note that I didn't say "Believe". Understanding is not the same as believing. If you were to study 20th century European Political history, you would have to understand several forms of government: communism (the USSR), fascism (Germany, Italy), socialism (Lots of countries), socialist democracy, capitalistic democracy and constitutional monarchy. You would not believe in all of them; you COULD not believe in all of them at once. If you tried, your head would explode. You would, however, have to understand their basic concepts.

If you were to study comparative religion, you would have to understand what Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists and Confucians believe. You would not have to convert to a new religion every week, but you would have to understand the other ones. You would not get very far in your studies if you dismissed all the other ones as "wrong". They believe their path is the right one just as strongly as you believe your path is the right one.

99% of the biologists alive today believe that species evolve, and that the theory of evolution is the best explanation we have for the diversity of life. Christian biologists, Jewish biologists, Muslim biologists, Hindu biologists, Buddhist biologists; Australian, Bolivian and Chinese biologists; 99% of them believe it is the best explanation. Yes, it is only a theory. Planetary motion - the theory that the earth went around the sun, not vice versa - was only a theory for a long time. Some people still don't believe it.

If you are truly curious, ask your minister to give you a short, reasoned explanation of evolution. Tell him you don't want to believe it, of course; you just want to understand it. If he says he can't because it is wrong, he is as ignorant as those monarchists I mentioned above.

Answer 5

Man DID NOT evolve from monkeys or apes, and no scientist has ever claimed that they did! All primates have common ancestry, but those common ancestors of all primates were not monkeys, or apes, or humans, because none of those forms had yet evolved!
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Answer 6

No living thing is evolved from a species that stilll exists. Darwin's theory did not say that man evolved from monkeys and apes. It says that humans and the other primates had a common ancestor.

Answer 7

Because we didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from an animal that is a relative to the apes.

Answer 8

maybe not everybody evolved

,but we did not evolve from the monkeys we were cloned and genetically engineerd by the Anunaki as a slave race to mine gold for them
every body knows this by now except Christians ,they have been brainwashed to never accept or believe anything about exstraterestrials,
by the illuminati the descendents of the Anunaki

Answer 9

It's possible to evolve from another animal, but that animal continues to exist and evolve separately as well. Just because something evolves from something else doesn't necessarily mean that the original animal disappears from the planet.

Tapirs are ancestors of elephants, but tapirs are still around.

Alligators evolved from crocodiles, and crocs are still around.

etc.

Answer 10

There is evidence that man evolved from a common ancestor of chimpanzees, not monkeys.
The apes didn't change because we are a common ancestor not the same species.