if monkeys evolved into humans, then how are there still monkeys around today?

Answer 1

Evolution is a complicated idea to wrap one's head around. My father always asks me "Why don't we see half ape, half antelopes walking around if evolution is true?" I've always have told him...It's survival of the fittest. Darwin spent most of his life trying to answer questions regarding this subject. Here's the idea. As organisms replicate, there will be differences in their childrens' anatomy and physiology generated from various gene expression obtained from "both parents." These new gene combinations can be productive or non-productive. In productive gene expressions, the new traits of the children, that the parents lack, give them an edge in their habitat. Look at giraffes, evolution has given them long necks to reach high leaves, while elephants have evolved into having long trunks to do a similar task. Each species express different traits that proved their worthiness during their evolution. In non-productive traits, the organism may be hindered, therefore having disadvantages which prevent them from competing for resources and are evenutally bred out of the species. An example of that being human body hair. One theory is that our ancestors were covered in hair to help keep them warm. Well, as we started wearing clothing, such as animal hides and the like, our need for expression of the genes for body hair slowing dissapated. Now back to your question. We may have evolved from apes, but not all apes or monkeys will or can evolve into more advanced organisms. Therefore we have an extreme diversity of organisms with an extreme diversity of traits to which are beneficial in their various environments that they live in. Basically, there are still monkeys because they are good at being monkeys and have little reason or no reason to change.

Answer 2

Ignorance plagues this discussion board! The idea is NOT that humans evolved FROM monkeys. The idea is that we evolved from a common ancestor and there is plenty of fossil evidence to prove this. Just as the domestic dog has changed in appearance over time, humans haven't always looked that way that we do today. Our skulls have grown bigger and has taken on many shapes in the past few thousand years. Look up the fossil record and free yourself from this common misconception. And for goodness sake, don't listen to these people who aren't Biology majors.

Answer 3

If you are to take the same argument further, you would be asking, if EVERY animals, plants, and mushrooms, we have today evolved from single cell organisms, why do we still single cell organisms such as germs and planktons?

Simply put, a single cell organism broke into different branches and each branch broke into more branches, and so on. What we know as monkey and human today came from a branch that later broke up to monkey and human.

Also, if you wait long enough, it is entirely possible that monkeys may go extinct leaving only humans. (hopefully not, but it is entirely possible)

Also, evolution is a survival of the fittest. If you had 10 primates, each one can have an off spring that is slightly different and each of them have slightly different off spring each. (that makes 1000) Some of them are better fitted for the environment and survive to produce more. Some die off. Obviously, by evolution, not all of the existing species sponteneously change the same way.

Answer 4

Humans are apes, people are monkeys. And evolution does not paintings to kill out the opposite species that do not evolve, and honestly the monkeys and apes round at present adding people, additionally developed, simply one other course then people. Everything alive at present has long gone via the identical period of time of evolution and are simply as historical as the whole thing else species smart, it is only they went via exceptional versions. If a individual has a baby with a brand new characteristic (we could say 12 palms), and it's within the genetic code. And then that people baby has extra kids and it's handed on, after which you could have a populace of men and women with 12 palms countless numbers of years from now, which have been seperated from men and women with 10 palms for decades and feature transformed sufficient reproductivly not to be ready to breed, that does not imply the human race with 10 palms simply died out on the grounds that there's now a species with 12 palms. Evolution is not a course in a single course, it is only a number of branches of species from their usual ancestor.

Answer 5

We did in fact evolve from monkeys and we did evolve from apes. We did not evolve from any living species of monkey or ape, but there are probably some in our ancestry that closely resemble living species. There is a form that is ideally suited to a particular environment. That form has the ideal size, the ideal length of tooth, etc. etc. A crocodile has changed little in hundreds of millions of years because it is so ideally adapted. Monkeys are very well adapted to their niche. You could not survive in a monkeys niche. Your body is not suited to it. One monkey might exploit one niche whereas another might exploit another. One might eat fruit, the other insects. The reason there is variety is that nature provides numerous niches. Life expands and fills those niches.

Answer 6

This shows a common misunderstanding of evolution.

Evolution does not necessarily destroy the parent species. There are lots of types of evolution. I will cover three here.

Linear evolution changes the entire species. A becomes B

Divergent evolution is when one species splits in two to take advantage of two different habitats. A becomes A and B

Adaptive radiation is when a group or population of a species finds a new home and adapts to several different niches (and in several directions) at once. A becomes B, C, D, and E.

Keep in mind that there is 150 years of scientific data supporting evolution, and none that rejects it.

Answer 7

Who told you humans evolved from monkeys?

Answer 8

The concept is common descent. Monkeys and apes, including humans, descended from Carpolestes simpsoni.

Answer 9

monkeys and humans evolved from the same ancestor

although it would be possible (if they hadn't extinct) to have this ancestor-specie around today

Answer 10

I ask myself the same question.

Maybe humans evolved from a different kind of primate, not exactly monkeys.