To those believing in evolution, Darwin theory, etc Since apes live primarily in warm climates, Africa, etc?

Question

Why do we have people living in, not conducive to apes, cold climates? Why, when, how, would the first ape like or man like creatures go to a climate that is contrary to their habitat? Other than zoos, I seriously doubt that there are any apes calling, Alaska, Iceland, the North Pole, etc their home. I assume that, per the theory of evolution, life ,espically ape's, started in Africa or maybe South America. When and why would these yet man creatures, go to such locations? How did they get there? Were they smart enough to build boats? Did they know what they were getting into? I'm talking apes or ape like creatures, not yet fully man, in this question. Thank You.

Answer 1

I am not an evolutionist, but look at what the Bible says about the earth way back then.
(GENESIS 2:5-6) “Now there was as yet no bush of the field found in the earth and no vegetation of the field was as yet sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain upon the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist would go up from the earth and it watered the entire surface of the ground.”
Appartently, this weather pattern did not change until man was established and God caused the worldwide flood.
8 Of every clean beast and of every beast that is not clean and of the flying creatures and everything that moves on the ground, 9 they went in by twos to Noah inside the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 And seven days later it turned out that the waters of the deluge came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the downpour upon the earth went on for forty days and forty nights. 13 On this very day Noah went in, and Shem and Ham and Ja′pheth, Noah’s sons, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with him, into the ark; 14 they and every wild beast according to its kind,

The flood was caused not only by rain, but by the earths springs, underground water, bursting forth.

Answer 2

Over time the continents moved, the areas changed (including climate). Imagine it this way. A small couple of apes went a walking and wandered for days and days. they found a nice little spot, a bit cooler than where they were and began a family. soon the family grew and over time the climate began to get cooler and cooler. there were earthquakes and the grounds shifted apart so the apes found they could go no where else.

Honestly i have no idea from literature! but that sort of thing would be my answer - climates changed over time and if you ask how apes got there, how did apes get on earth in the first place? there has to be a way of one or two becoming stranded or a species of ape evolutionising into the same sort of ape found in more warmer climates.

Answer 3

They did not know where they were going. They were just following the food and animals and spreading out over the world. Not once, but twice. The first migration, of homo sapiens, became the Neanderthals in Europe, while continuing to also live in Africa. The second migration, of Homo sapiens sapiens, met up with the Neanderthals and co-habited with them, seemingly without interbreeding, possibly because they had become different species in the 200,000 years between migrations. Neanderthals became extinct.
These migrations did not occur suddenly, they took thousands of years, allowing for adaptation to different climates etc. A better term would probably be "migratory habitation". The reason why there are humans in the Americas and Australia is that, quite recently, say up to 20,000 years ago, the continents were connected by narrow land bridges. These were present because, during ice ages, sea levels are lower, so more land is exposed; as the ice age ended, the water levels rose, eventually hiding these land bridges. Humans moved onto these continents before they became isolated.

Answer 4

We aren't apes, so we aren't the same as them. So we can and do live in different environments. There are many reasons to pursue different climates. Escape from predators, search for food, search for shelter, population becoming to dense, etc.
Our early ancestors mostly lived in Africa and later expanded a little to Asia and the Mediterranean. It was very recently that early human ancestors and humans expanded to all of Asia, Europe, Americas, etc. The did so by land, not boat. To get to the Americas, the figure they used the ice bridge that is sometimes created between Russia and Alaska.

Answer 5

Well I have a point of View that mankind has brain to use, and his intelligence made him able to invent Clothes which makes him able to live in cold areas .. what proves that is if you go there and live naked without clothes and buildings to protect you you wont survive.. on the other hand if you go to the wild of Africa you may survive because of the better climate...
also if you dress a group of apes and put them in a building and protect them from cold they would survive don't you think??

Answer 6

There is a species of ape that has spread all over the globe.............it's called homo sapien.

To make the distinction of "not yet fully human" is ridiculous. We are primates along with the rest of the apes whether you like it or not.

Have you not heard about Gondawanna Land?

Spreading around the globe has been easy. HomoSapiens survived in areas other than those near the equator because we discovered how to manipulate fire which helped us through the ice age.

Natural selection and evolution are not theories...........they are considered by the TRUE scientific community as FACT!!
There is abundant evidence to support it.

There is zero evidence to support creationism.................unless you consider that silly book as "scientific" proof!

Answer 7

Interestingly, you say that you doubt that there are any apes who call Alaska or Iceland their home. There are! Humans are apes. You cannot make the distinction that you're talking about apes, not fully man, because man is non-distinct from the apes.

These apes were indeed smart enough to build boats, wear clothes, use agriculture.

Answer 8

Actually, apes live in all sorts of climates, although it is only one species of Great Ape that has managed to populate so broadly and successfully. Apes are the most adaptable family in history. One particular species of ape has managed to colonise every possible habitat on the planet, and is actually looking to new planets.

It has possibly overreached itself, but credit where credit's due.

Answer 9

I'm cutting and pasting this from another q I answered.
check out the links.
we didn't emigrate from Africa as "apes" btw.
oh, and Japanese snow monkeys live in very cold places, IT SNOWS!

Oh and I found these videos of a documentary that is quite good in explaining this:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+real+eve&search=Search
Its called "the real eve" and I saw this once in the Discovery Channel. please watch it, and enjoy.

Yes, but it takes many many many years. Not in a single human's life span.(not like Jacko, he supposedly had some skin disease or genetic mutation that caused his skin color to change). We are all "Black," we all came from Africa, but we migrated to different continents and the changes in weather, the amount of sunlight and the nature of the habitat changed the African characteristics and converted them into the different physical characteristics that people of diff. regions have. THIS IS CALLED EVOLUTION. So the first types of humans (not exactly homosapiens) were "Black" or had high amounts of "melanin," and the amount of melanin decreased after thousands of years for the humans that migrated to other continents because the environment changed. evolution occurs through genetic mutations, over quite some period of time .


check these sites out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4435009.stm
http://www.ramsdale.org/dna10.htm
http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220771294.html
http://www.hhmi.org/cgi-bin/askascientist/highlight.pl?kw=&file=answers%2Fgeneral%2Fans_045.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_theory

Answer 10

apes never migrated, that is all apes live in comfortable rain forest zones of earth, but hominids evolved first to stand on two feet and live in Savannah's, and these hominids evolved later to produce tools, hunts animals and use animal skins and fire as protection from the climate. once they were able to survive colder climates, they migrated to the all of Eurasia, and ever to some islands in Indonesia.
Neanderthals, who lived in cold climates, used fire and clothing and lived in caves as protection from the cold, but they also evolved to have a body more suitable to survive cold climates.
modern humans, who appeared 200000 years ago, had the ability to use technology to migrate to all places, survive all climates and thrive, but still we modern humans are classified as belonging to the ape family, and are very similar to chimpanzees, who can only survive in rain forests.