2007-04-21 17:31:53 · 12 answers · asked by app's 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
if i remember correctly
first there was algae in sea
then from that we got small planktons and stuff
then we got fish
from fish we got amphibians such as salamanders
from amphibians we got mammals
mammals have then branched out and one of them is monkeys.
very recent discovery has hinted that dinosaurs are more related to birds than lizards.
2007-04-21 17:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by mahindraoye 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mahindra has the order sorted out..which should put it in perspective.
..And we didn't "evolve from monkeys", we had a common ancestor. It seems it was about 10million years since we shared an ancestor with chimps (an ape) and even longer since we we shared an ancestor with monkeys. The monkeys and apes of 10 million years ago would have looked more similar to each other than they do today.
There are 2 main groups of monkeys old world (African) and new world (South american) as well a lemurs tarsiers which are all related....so I guess it would be sometihng that loked like a tarsier or lemur. Back from this the next most closely related goup would be tree shrews!! (which do look more like tarsiers, lemurs etc than monkeys).
2007-04-22 01:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by mareeclara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans came from an ape. The ancestors of apes were very similar to todays monkeys. Their ancestors were similar to lemurs. Before that, the ancestor was similar to a tree shrew....
2007-04-22 00:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A book which sets this out very well is "An Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins.
It goes backwards, starting at humans, back to a few strands of organic molecules.
2007-04-22 02:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope, we dont come from monkey.
we share a common ancestor with monkey
2007-04-22 08:17:58 · answer #5 · answered by noy k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something similar to treeshrews. And before that, rodent-like mamals. Before that, amphibians, then fish, sea polyps, cell colonies, and finally amebas.
2007-04-22 00:38:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
2007-04-22 00:52:20 · answer #7 · answered by Jim B 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
i believe all living creatures allllllll originated from a unicellular organism billions, maybe trillions of years ago.
Go science!
2007-04-22 02:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by julia k 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are the evolved forms of the very first microorganisms that exist due to change in the environment
2007-04-22 01:20:02 · answer #9 · answered by ☺ian☺ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the answer to that is unknown. Sorry to disappoint but it is so far back that we have not been able to trace the change in DNA to this day.
2007-04-22 00:37:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋