why dont apes evolve anymore?

Answer 1

They no longer bother because they know what's going to happen with global warming ! ! !

Answer 2

There's not much to say that they aren't evolving. Evolution takes millions of years, and there's not really any reason why the human race should have evolved as it has either. Once a race becomes comfortable in its own environment, then it doesn't need to evolve anymore. This is an area that you could spend your entire life researching, and still only arrive at conclusions that the entire scientific community will 'prove' inaccurate. Precisely how they'll do that is a mystery. Apes don't evolve anymore because they don't need to. The only thing that other species on this planet have to survive is human behaviour.

Answer 3

I always get a little distressed reading about evolution even from people that should understand it but in fact it is little understood and human evolution is even less so. In fact, we did evolve from apes and the distinction between humans and apes is arbitrary. We should be considered a bipedal ape but we get to write the biology books. We are the last in a long line of bipedal apes. Apes such as chimps have practically no fossil record. It consists of a relatively recent tooth. Chimps may have evolved very fast. Evolution happens in puntuated intervals. When an animal is supremely adapted, the rate of evolution slows dramatically. There is a strange assumption from many, again those that should know better, that we evolved from chimps. This is a rediculous assumption. We evolved from a common ancestor. That common ancestor may very well have been bipedal or upright so if the chimp was writing the biology books, it would certainly claim that they evolved from humans.

Answer 4

Interesting quesiton..what make you think they are finished? You've only had the very short window of time that you've been alive to look at them. Evolution works a bit slower than that (unless you're a superbug bacteria or virus, those little guys mutate and evolve at a scary fast rate).

Dude, the apes not done yet, we humans not done yet, almost nothing is done yet. Except for cockroaches, sharks and horseshoe crabs. And if you change their environments enough, they'll use evolution to adapt. The next apparant step for humans is to genetically lose the wisdom teeth...this idea is based on the fact that we have so much trouble with them currently growing in impacted so often. We just don't have enough room in our mouths for them anymore and we no longer need them to grind down the food we eat thanks to fairly recent (on an evloutinalry scale) innovation of cooking and baking our foods.

Answer 5

Because they never did in the first place . That part of the "theory" of evolution was shot down by intelligent people long ago .

The red-faced evolutionists had to do some quick thinking , and came up with real winner this time ................ the "common ancestor" .

Nobody , including evolutionists , knows what this mysterious "common ancestor" is ! They blindly accept it as established fact , as they do the entire theory of evolution .

Go ahead , ask what the "common ancestor" is in this forum and see the kind of responses you get . You`ll get some mumbo-jumbo about a particular line of "ape-like" creatures and other fairy tales .

The advantage of the clever "common ancestor" ploy is that it can`t be disproved simply because no one knows what it is in the first place . This was the intent all along .

You`ll even get answers that insist evolution is taking place all the time , it just takes so long we don`t notice it in our short life spans . If that`s the case , where are the 75% ape - 25% humans ? or the 50% apes - 50% humans ? or the 25% apes - 75% humans ? or the 1% apes - 99% humans ? ......... huh ? ......... where are they ?

Answer 6

Because evolution is the change in traits that are inherited; a change that happens as a result of a need to adapt to a changing environment. If the "apes" are already perfectly adapted to their environment, there is no need for further changes (evolution) to take place. Moreover, it takes a very long time for any change in the allele frequencies to show. I think a good adage to sum up why they don't evolve anymore would be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Answer 7

that's conceivable that for the time of lots of hundreds of thousands of years present day apes might desire to evolve into another humanlike species. that's, in spite of the undeniable fact that, very inconceivable. at first, human beings did no longer evolve from any of the species all of us understand as apes on the instant. quicker or later 5 to eight million years in the past, the common ancestor of human beings and present day apes diverged to type the two separate lineages all of us understand on the instant. The species on the tip of those lineages are a effect of an exceptionally particular mix of decision pressures and genetic mutations over hundreds of thousands of years. This comparable mixture is very no longer at risk of happen ever returned.

Answer 8

Hello¡
I think, animals don´t stop evolving. It´s a continue evolutive process. The point is that it takes millions of years. It´s just a matter of time. The environment takes play in this process, and genes. There is a relationship between environment and genes. Remember that an individual doesn´t evolve, the species evolves.

Answer 9

They probably are, we just are not watching close enough to see what is happening. the big problem is that humans are changing their environment more rapidly than they can evolve, and therefore they will probably not have the chance to be successful and will die out - but that is part of evolution as well - survival of the fittest - and humans are outcompeting most species these days

Answer 10

I'm not convinced that apes ever did any evolving.
One of the oldest varieties of plants is the fern.
It is perhaps 400 million years old.
And yet, ferns never learned to develop flowers, even though flowering plants have an advantage over nonflowering plants.
Why did ferns never develop flowers?
Wasn't 400 million years enough time?
Maybe I should say it more slowly and clearly for all the evolutionists...

Why
did
ferns
never
develop
flowers?

Why did birds lose their teeth?
Not just some birds...all birds.

25,000 years ago Cro Magnon man was light-years ahead of a modern chimpanzee.
If you gave your chimp paints, make sure they are non-toxic because he will get more in his mouth than he gets on the canvas.

Answer 11

Well, humans do still evolve. I mean, in the past 600 years, the average height for a causcasion male has increased by 5 inches, and it is probably the same for other races, proportionally.