If humans evolved from apes...?

Question

...then why are there still apes?

Answer 1

Because they are still well adapted to live in jungles and there are still jungles. Humans became the way we are after the ice age when all the forests receeded and we needed to be more mobile to keep up with the herds of animals we then needed to live off. before then being having plenty of fruit and being able to climb trees was more useful and in countries that were less affected by the ice age apes still exhist.

Answer 2

This question needs its own category in Yahoo Answers.

Humans did NOT evolve from apes. This is a common misconception, frequently played upon by Creationists. If humans evolved FROM apes then naturally there would be no apes. Humans and apes share a common ancestor which shared some of the characteristics of both humans and apes. Humans and apes are both equally evolved because we both still exist and are both adapted to our present environments and circumstances.

It is currently estimated that about 7 million years ago one population of this common ancestor underwent a mutational change which produced two similar but different species - one went on to evolve into modern apes and the other went on to evolve into humans.

Answer 3

Yes the apes of today have evolved, just as we did from an ancestor around 10 million years ago.
The human like ancestors were very ape like then and have changed over time in a number of ways. Apes have also changed from the apes that were around then too, but that ancestor is well dead!!

Answer 4

Human being did not evolve from apes, we evolved from the same ancestors.

Even if we had evolved from apes, there migh still be apes. Some apes would go off and develop into human beings while other apes still survived in other locations.

There is much on evolution pro and con on the net, please look around, and find a better answer than the one I give.

Answer 5

Humans did not evolve from apes. Humans and modern apes evolved from earlier ape like creatures. The difference is important. Both evolutionary lines proved to be successful.

Answer 6

The theory is not that humans evolved from apes. The theory is that humans and apes come from the same origin. Both species are believed to have branched out from the same source.

Answer 7

Although this question is in the biology section, it can be answered in geological terms...

The evolution of humans (amongst other things) is related to plate tectonics. It was influenced by the Great African Rift that changed the habitat of the prehistoric apes forcing them to adapt and therefore evolve into something different, it encouraged radiation (the formation of several species from a common one) as it created more ecological niches.

There is a wealth of information out there linking the evolution of humans to plate tectonics... it must have been an interesting time, with mountains forming and creating isolation (great for evolution), valleys sinking, local and global climates changing, tropical forests disappearing to make way for grasslands, and so on...

Answer 8

if apes evolved, then why are there so many different types of apes?
Humans are one of the different types of ape.
they both evolved seperately from the same source as the answer before me states.

Answer 9

In evolution, certain species gets diverted from main branch, and continue the evolution independently. Accordingly, from a monkey type animal, a branch of apes evolved, again it divided and human species took a new branch of animals. But the main species of monkeys and apes, which does not took part in the new evolved branch, remained same as today.

Answer 10

Short answer: Something caused the species of ape we evolved from to evolve. Present-day are evolutionary dead-ends. They don't/didn't need to evolve.