According to Charles Darwin we evolved from monkeys, why have we not evolved anymore and if we evolving what are we evolving in to ?
2007-04-27 11:22:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Sigh...we didn't evolve from monkeys. Darwin never said that.
What has been proposed is that humans are closely related to the great apes due to sharing a common ancestor.
Evolution happens over the geologic timescale (on the order of many, many thousands of years or longer), not the biological timescale. We'd never be able to observe it happening.
2007-04-27 11:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by Sancho 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
We are not evolving anymore. We are devolving. The selective pressures that were present that led to a more intelligent species, a more disease resistant species, have been removed.
Modern medicine allows the least fit of the species to survive and to reproduce. At this time the least fit are reproducing faster than the those people would regard as the most fit.
Even serious genetic diseases that were original fatal are controlled and more people with these problem are being born.
This is not the rant of a Nazi, just the truth. Evolution has little to do with the further changes in the human species. Better nutrition, vaccinations and preventive medicine will lead to a healthier but less evolved human.
2007-04-27 12:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by a simple man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
> "According to Charles Darwin we evolved from monkeys'
?? Who on earth told you that? Whoever it is doesn't have a CLUE about Darwin or evolution.
> "...why have we not evolved anymore? ..."
That's kind of like standing in front of a tree for ten minutes and saying "why hasn't the tree grown anymore?"
In other words, evolution is SLOOOOW.
> "and if we evolving what are we evolving in to ?"
Future evolution is impossible to predict because it depends on two things: (1) New mutations; and (2) The future environment. Neither of these can be predicted.
Wherever you are getting your information about evolution ... try some place else. Either your biology teachers and textbooks at school are (or were) *really* bad ... or you are deliberately tuning them out.
But but whatever you do, I hope you haven't rejected evolution based on your current understanding of it. That would be sad. Ask questions here (or email me if you like), and be open for the answers. Evolution is actually quite simple (but there's a LOT of bad information being spread by anti-evolutionists).
2007-04-27 14:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is no evidence to support darwin's ideas.
He thought the fossil record would reveal countess transitional fossils. In fact there are just one or two very controversial ones.
The fossils record reveals stasis of kinds.
Man has not evolved. Nor has anything else. There have been changes within kinds of animals but not changes between kinds. For example Lions and Tigers are related and descended from a common big cat ancestor. They can interbreed to give Ligers and Tions.
What I'm saying is that the fact that there are new species is nothing to do with Darwinian evolution. It is just Natural selection.
Evolution is a philosophical idea not supported by the evidence.
2007-04-27 19:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Charles Darwin never said that we evolved from monkeys, but that we have common ancestry. Evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population, goes on all the time. You can have great morphological change without speciation. Evolution has no direction and it is not progressive. So, we would have to have the proper beneficial mutation coupled with a selection pressure to see speciation. There are many genetic constraints that are too numerous to go into here, but use this site to inform yourself further in evolutionary theory.
http://www.talkorigins.org
2007-04-27 11:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
personally, I dont believe in the extreme Darwinian evolution theory....
this is for a few reason..
1. yes.. why no more evolution
2. according to the theory .. all living things right now started from one type creature... then why is that the divergence was possible in all of the physical aspects in the body EXCEPT for the method of reproduction.... and why is that extra different number of genders don't exist for every specific type if living organisms... and why is there genders in the first place..
this one i think was enough for me to disbelieve in the theory... especially after my bio prof got stuck on them
... and i dont think we will evolve into any thing... only minor changes as skin colour and physical body sizes... nothing about the intelegence factor..
just opinion....
as for saying that 1000 years ago we were not smarter is false... human intellect does not change... bring a guy from the ancient egyptian's world and explain e=mc^2... he WILL understand... eventhough some of us still dont
2007-04-27 11:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
some of the answers you have here are correct,and some are not. We are still evolving, but we can not see into the future.
2007-04-27 15:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
are you mad have you not seen MEN lol joke of course we are just look at the athletes we are getting bigger stronger smarter. back when the first man ran a marathon he ran it in about 3 hours 40 min now look at now days 2 hours 4 min is not evolution??
2007-04-28 04:06:58 · answer #8 · answered by brad s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuz evolution is a load of Bunkum.
2007-04-28 00:54:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who says we have not evolved???? we are taller than we were centuries ago, we know more than we did centuries ago, we live longer than we did centuries ago.........
how long did that "great step" take? many millions of years, why do people expect to see radical changes in less than a lifetime????
2007-04-27 11:26:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋