If evolution is a fact, will not monkeys one day be human?

Answer 1

Humans did NOT evolve from apes. We SHARE a common ancestor, but we have our own lineage (hominids). Therefore apes will not evolve into humans, and this happening is IMPOSSIBLE! We are different species, and no matter what we or they evolve to become, then we will still be different species. Apes are not less evolved than humans. They are perfectly adapted and suited for their environment. Think of something as simple as a tuna. They seem to be less complex, and not as advanced evolutionarily. But if we drop you in the deep ocean who will survive. The tuna or you?

Answer 2

I don't think you understand what evolution is. Evolution is not something slowly changing into something else, like a monkey changing into a human, that never ever occurs.

The simpler version of evolution even you can understand! I hope you read this though and not dismiss it right away just because you are a religious person and don't believe in it. You don't always have to believe in what you read, and you don't always have to read only what you believe. A smarter person will always find out as much as he can even about what he disagrees with, so to come up with a better counter-argument.

Evolution is driven by 2 driving events, you don't need to know the details, but the first of the events creates variation in the genes of a population, and the second is the famously known process of natural selection.

Variation occurs naturally and randomly, like a person's cells getting cancer one day, a mole one day starting to grow on your skin, etc. They are basically mutations.

Natural selection is not survival of the fittest. As you can see, even after a million years, there are humans, and there are monkeys, coexisting in the same world, so the obvious observation here is that the "weaker" one (the monkey) did not die out, in fact they are quite popular.

Natural selection simply means those who are able to live and reproduce offsprings. To put the 2 mechanisms together, first several random mutation happens to a living organism. Some of the mutated ones mate and have kids. If the kids survive, then he can mate have his own kids, and random mutations happen to his kids, and then some of them survive and have more, then several generations down the road, some mutated species are still living on and mating, while some have become extinct. This is random, and the surviving one isnt necessarily the fittest. There are medical causes of extinction as well as outside factors like the ability for certain kinds of mutations to adapt to the environment.

So to answer your question, NO you cannot expect monkeys to one day be human. IF the monkey species are not "fit", there would not be any monkeys today living in the world. But since there are monkeys living today in the world, and assuming that the environment does not change drastically, there would continue to be monkeys in the world. However, if the environment changes drastically, there probably will not be any humans left either. There are many extinct species living in the past on an earth with a completely different climate and temperature.

Answer 3

as long as monkeys(or any species) don't go extinct they will always be around. It will be their ancestors that will evolve. Evolution depends on the environment. It is very unlikely that the same environmental factors that created humans would happen again with modern monkeys. The world has changed too much in the last 5 million years.

Answer 4

No more than humans will one day be monkeys.

You see humans did not evolve from monkeys. Monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor through different paths.A modern day monkey isn't evolutionally "inferior" to a modern day human and humans are not the next step or even 50th step in monkey evolution.

Answer 5

"If evolution is a fact, will monkeys not one day be human?" Sorry had to fix it to understand it. The truth? Noone knows what evolution holds, it's not something anyone can predict. Evolution is driven by a force usually the lack of a food source, but could be a number of other factors.

Answer 6

Monkeys will not become human. In fact monkeys never did become human according to Darwin's theory of evolution.
Rather, primates (the monekys) and man (the humans) shared a common ancestor. Because of many different factors, and geographic seperation and need to adjust and adapt to their respective environments, this common ancestor over many millions of years seperated into different species, thus evolving into "monkeys" and "humans".
It is very possible that over time (probably several hundred million years) apes and homosapiens will further endure further speciation due to geographic isolation and adaptation, but the likelihood that any current primate species will become what resembles man would require so many independant unlikely factors that it is near impossible.

Answer 7

I was talking to my monkey friend the other day. Her fundamentalist monkey acquaintance was asking if humans would one day be monkeys if evolution was true.

My monkey friend had to tell her acquaintance that, "no, that's not how evolution works. Humans are our very distant cousins and not our ancestors."

Answer 8

Evolution is not a straight line. It's more like a tree with branches and then that tree was sawed off in a bunch of places. If that makes any sense. Evolution is still being discussed and still makes no really good sense. It probably never will. Experts keep changing their minds as science gets better and more research is done.

Answer 9

no, they say that there was a species before the "humans" and apes, then the genes mutated and created two different species and throught evolution we have evolved into what we are. the" monkey" if they were to evolve the they would be a completely differnt species from human.

Answer 10

No, one day monkeys will be something cooler than monkeys! I call them homo-monkeys.

But evolution doesn't always take the same path. They do not he to turn into human.