If humans evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?

Question

silly i know but i wanna know y ? lol

Answer 1

The visiting aliens only introduced new dna to certain apes.

Dont laugh , its in the bible!

LOL.

Answer 2

Almost everything evolved from something.

Just because something evolves from something else it doesn't mean that only one of these things can exist at any given time. It's evolution not replacement.

Say if thing 2 evolves from thing 1, you'll end up with thing 1 and thing 2, not just thing 2.

The presence of thing 2 doesn't mean that thing 1 suddenly ceases to exist, they will live in paralell. They will continue to do so until one or the other becomes extinct.

But they might not become extinct.

Thing 1 and thing 2 could both evolve to produce things 3 and 4. Now you have thing 1, 2, 3 and 4 living in paralell. Say, just for example's sake, thing 1 dies out because it can't compete with thing 4 for food (They both eat trees and thing 4 has a long neck and a big mouth). You'd end up with 2, 3 and 4 living in paralell. If these all evolve and you end up with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 all living together. Say thing 6 is super intelligent and manages to harness the power of the sun, but does so by blocking out all light to earth 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 would all die out at the same time as there would be no food for them to eat (and thy aren't bright enough to find a McDonalds.

So we're only left with 6.

Geddit?

Answer 3

You have £100 in a wallet all in £10 notes,
you take out a £10 to buy a a game.

your £10 note has evolved into a game!
but you will still have 9 £10 notes in your wallet.

when a species spread they may get separated (by water perhaps) this isolated group of species will then evolve and adapt to their surroundings without being diluted from the whole gene pool. thus although they have come from one they split into many. Some may do better than others and some may fade into extinction (red squirrel - grey squirrel)

Answer 4

If there are 10 groups of apes in different environments, all the groups do not evolve at the same speed and time. Some evolve faster and some slower. The time varies. So we have apes evolving and evolved at the same time.

Answer 5

The theory is that modern day apes and man both evolved from a common ancestor ("the missing link") that was neither today's ape or man. That early ancestor then mutated two ways, and one line became apes, and the other became man. They have found fossils of creatures that may have been such an ancestor, but I don't think there has been a definitive connection.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

I think its to do with environment and surroundings. The apes we evolved from moved from the jungle out on to the grass lands (because Africa was once more densly covered with trees, this changed to grassland due to some sort of climate change) and therefore needed to stand upright to see their pray and to be able to see potenial predators. The apes that remained in the jungle just stayed the same as they had already evolved sufficiently for their environment.

Answer 7

(Sorry, the following may sound harsh. But people who ask this question, or say "That's a very good question." should be utterly embarassed.)

Here's why this is the MOST *ILLOGICAL* QUESTION ASKED REPEATEDLY ON YAHOO ANSWERS:

If the theory of evolution was that a species always *REPLACED* its ancestor, then trivially, there would be ONLY ONE SPECIES ON THE PLANET!

So clearly that is NOT what the theory of evolution says.

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(On the off chance that you are not just making a rhetorical argument against evolution, and are actully asking a real question because you want to hear the answer ... then I apologize in advance for the above tone ... and here is the answer:)

So how *does* the theory of evolution explain species? Three things: branching, branching, and branching!

Humans did not evolve "from" apes. Humans and the ape species like chimps, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons etc. are all separate *branches* in the primate line ... all from the same ancestor. Humans are no more likely to have replaced chimps, than chimps are to have replaced humans. Neither one is the ancestor of the other. They are separate branches.

How does branching occur? Many ways. But the most common way is when two subpopulations of a species get isolated from each other. (A river cuts through a valley, a drought, flood, bad winter, etc. decimates the species leaving many isolated pockets, a migration in search of diminishing food, etc. etc.) If they are isolated for long enough, they will lose the ability to interbreed and become separate species (a process demonstrated in the laboratory). One species is now two (or more) species ... *forever* genetically isolated from each other. Each species and its descendants are forever a new BRANCH ... free to evolve in completely different ways. So one branch splits off from the other apes and becomes humans. The ape branch itself continues to branch and becomes chimps, gorillas, gibbons, etc.

Branching, branching, branching.

Stop getting your understanding of evolution from CARTOON versions presented in creationist web sites. They deliberatly give an absurd version of evolution so they can then call it absurd. You wouldn't read only atheist sites to understand religion ... so why read only anti-evolution sites to understand evolution? If you're going to criticize the scientific view, then you at least should understand what it is first, don't you think?

Answer 8

Humans did not "descend" from apes. This is a frequent misconception about evolution. Instead the various apes (chimpanzee, gorilla, orangatan, humans) have evolved from common ancestors that have always gradually changed throughout time.

Answer 9

the reason we still have ape's is that their dna only differs from ours by about 2%. if you watch ape's you will that they have the intellgence to make and use tools e.g. they will use a sharp piece of rock to break open a fruit, which show's improvisation. they can learn to communicate by various hand gestures which show's they have the capability to learn and adapt

Answer 10

they didn't evolve from apes they just have a common ancestor in the beginning then branched off into seperate categories

Answer 11

I will keep my answer simple. We did not evolve from apes. Her comes the thumbs down!