and if in fact we did "evolve" why don't we see them evolving today?
2007-05-23 06:51:01 · 22 answers · asked by ηєvєrmorє 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
the humans or the monkeys?
2007-05-23 06:54:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Humans evolved from only one type of monkey-ish creature. The rest of the monkeys are still there because they were the ones that didn't evolve.
You want proof. Look at any random group of teenage boys. Or a random group of 40 year old men watching a football game.
2007-05-23 06:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
evolution doesn't mean the original species dies out, if they are sufficient enough to stay alive, and keep reproducing then they will sustain. Humans prob did evolve form primates, but they were the smartest ones, and over millions of years you get the modern day human...the original primate was probably much different than any of the ones you would recognize today also because they have evolved to a degree
2007-05-23 06:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by RSbear007 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one ever said that humans evolved from monkeys. Why don't you research the facts and theories and make up your own mind?
2007-05-23 06:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We didn't evolve directly from monkeys. There's a common ancestor between the apes, monkeys,gorillas, and humans known as Australopithecus. Australopithecus went extinct. And who's to say that maybe a God if he truly does exist since I'm more or less Agnostic created us in a way that we evolve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus
2007-05-23 06:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Common misconception, we did not "evolve" from monkeys. Nor did we "evolve" from apes, we share a common ancestor. Big difference there. Of course, me explaining is futile if you do not agree with evolution. Anyway, It takes thousands of years for a species to evolve, so obviously we would not be cognizant of it occurring now, since it occurs so slowly.
2007-05-23 06:59:36 · answer #6 · answered by liz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WOW, good question so you are saying monkeys should be extinct like dinosaurs or like the first birds. Well cave men are extinct. So maybe the particular species of monkey we actually became evolved from is extinct.
2007-05-23 06:56:55 · answer #7 · answered by Honey Brown Sugar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution doesn't require the extinction of less developed sub species. There are still changes in the modern ape.
But things like this take millions of years, and we have only been aware of these changes for the past few hundred years.
And we have only been actively tracking changes like you are talking about since the turn of the previous century.
2007-05-23 06:58:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution takes thousands of years. The monkey's we see today are the next batch to evolve after we screw up and kill off the entire population.
It's nature's own way of population stability.
2007-05-23 06:54:28 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. E. Bunny A.K.A. Andy. 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Who monkeys or human ?
I can see 6 billion monkeys very easily.
2007-05-23 06:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That branch of monkeys isn't here anymore because we became them.
Nothing to do with the monkeys that are still monkeys
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2007-05-23 06:55:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋