If the theory of Evolution is true why did we lose our monkey agility?

Question

They say we evolve to survive better. We would have been better off WITH the agility. Why did we get rid of it?

Answer 1

Duh

Why stop at monkey agility? By your strange reasoning we should also be able to lay eggs, breathe under water using gills and exist as separate individual cells.

It's obvious that we would not have been better off with more agility because evolution would have selected for it. In effect we traded a tree-dwelling existence which required agility for a ground-dwelling existence requiring manual dexterity and greater brain power (although there is at least one obvious exception to the latter that springs to mind).

Evolution is change, not just adding to what you already have.

...and for perhaps the hundreth time WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS; WE EVOLVED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR WE SHARE WITH APES.

Apes and monkeys are not the same. My 10 year old daughter knows the difference... are you aged less than 10 or just less well educated?

[I'm now convinced that a simple drink isn't enough of a response to questions like these... in future rather than drink I propose the following instructions:-
1. stand directly in front of a brick wall
2. repeatedly bend forward at the waist thus beating your head against the wall
3. whilst undertaking (2) repeat the phrase "duh! Duh!! DUH!!!"]

Answer 2

We were never monkeys. Monkeys and humans evolved from the same ancestor.

Super agility doesn't help you much if you're not swinging from trees. It was probably replaced with a better suited ability.

And I don't know about others, but I am still agile. I can still bend and twist and jump. Are you still agile?

Answer 3

Evolution means that the traits that help us survive are the dominant ones that are passed down. Somewhere along the way, man learned that building a ladder to get to the banana was easier than climbing and swinging from tree to tree. Thus the intelligence to create easier solutions took over and the necessity for agility slowly selected itself out.

Answer 4

It doesn't work like that. Otherwise we could all fly, and run 60 miles an hour, see in the dark, and have gills. It's natural selection and mutation, not "whatever is coolest for the species." Our brains were all that we needed to survive, so that was what developed. We were able to flourish not through superior speed or agility, but we were able to conquer those who did have that. Seen a sabre tooth tiger lately?

Answer 5

We did not decend from monkeys. If you actually learn about what you are talking about, you will see that we came from a common ancestor and seperated from that.

You could say we descended from a monkey-like creature (the common ancestor), but we didn't descend directly from monkeys - which is also why you don't find monkey's nowdays half-way onto the transition to becoming human.

It is a common misconception which I'm sure even educated religious people don't like to correct because it helps idiots like you carry on believing in their faith and put more money in the church box.

Answer 6

Because we didn't evolve from monkeys, we share a common ancestor.

And based on our population size verses their population size, I'd say we're more suited to survive.

Answer 7

Go do some reading. Humans are NOT direct descendants from the great apes. We share a common ancestor.

Answer 8

Drink!

Apparently some of us humans don't even have mental agility.

Answer 9

Sheesh, here we go again. Not only were we never a monkey, but we no longer have to live in trees to survive, thanks to our common ancestor.

Advice for those who denounce evolution: Know what you're denouncing.

Answer 10

Because......we evolved??????Now the questions get so silly as to state basically "if evolution is true,then how come we evolved"...STUNNING...I'll call it a day now. "If evolution is true,why did we evolve?I'm beginning to understand the "drinking game" now