If apes are our relatives they should have evoled at the same rate that we did, so in fact there should be no apes on this planet....
2007-06-12 10:34:51 · 7 answers · asked by kirsun10 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
We had a common ancestor millions of years ago. The oldest hominid (human ancestor) we have right now is from Chad in north Africa and dates to about 7 million years. We certainly seperated from the great apes millions of years before that as well.
Apes are more like our cousins. They developed into knuckle walkers and tree dwellers while we took on bipedal (two legged) locomotion. For whatever reason, around 3 milllion years ago, when we were Australopithicine (human ancestors) our brain began to grow larger and faster than our cousins around us. Eventually we became Homo Habilis/ Homo Erectus/Homo Ergaster and eventually into our Homo Sapien form that we now take on...
2007-06-13 01:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by mike l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is the short and simple answer. All Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. We did not evolve directly from Apes, we evolved in a divergent branch with Apes. Our common ancestor is believed to be called a Pongid.
2007-06-13 08:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of your If/Then conditional statements contain faulty premises.
No one is saying we evolved from apes, at least not Creationists or Evolutionists.
Rate of evolution between different populations can be identical, but it may go in different directions, depending on selective pressures.
Really basic evolutionary theory, like chapter 1, page 3 stuff, covers this. This is not the way to attack evolution, with ignorant statements. There are several informative statements that would work fine, but you have to actually read about what you're trying to discredit to find them. Too bad.
2007-06-13 03:54:53 · answer #3 · answered by The Ry-Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some havn't yet evolved and some are Neanderals
Have a look at a football crowd
2007-06-13 14:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we didn't evolve from apes. apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor, which is now extinct
2007-06-13 14:33:42 · answer #5 · answered by The Tourist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are descended from your parents, how can they still be around? Or vice versa, how can you still be alive if you have children?
Same silly question.
2007-06-13 14:37:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are descended from your grandparents, than why do your cousins still exist?
2007-06-13 14:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by Lenny43 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋