did humans evolve from animal?

Answer 1

Yep. Man is a social animal!!

Answer 2

Not necessarily, evolution is not a law you have to obey. Genetic Engineering is other possibility. There is a huge evolutionary difference between humans and the rest of animals living with us, so there is room for speculation, for the idea that we may have been created by somebody else, maybe an extraterrestrial life form.

According to biological science, we are just animals, there is nothing special about us, however biology as a natural science is very narrow to understand a being so complex as a human. Studying humans under the point of view of ethics, philosophy, linguistics or history, is more fair to us, and makes us look greatly superior than all other animal species on this planet. However if we look at biology in a reasonable way, we haven't found any animal with the ability to reason besides humans, so it's a little unfair to claim we are like the other animals, just because our biology has some similarities.

Answer 3

We are still animals. Taxonomy - the science for classifying living things - puts humans in the Animal Kingdom (the other kingdoms are Fungi, Plants, Bacteria and Protists (which include blue-green algae)).

The study of our DNA (the material on which evolution acts) shows that our closest evolutionary ancester is the Chimpanzee - who share 94% of our genetic material. This does not mean we were once the same as Chimpanzees are now; what it does suggest is that there was once a species which over a long period of time became distinct, eventually evolving into what we now know as Chimps and Humans.

I would recommend you read Jared Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee" - which is all about this subject and very enlightening! It suggests, for example, that chimp species (bonobo and common chimps) should share the same genus name as us ('homo'). One argument for this is that other species have been reclassified to belong to the same genus on the basis of less genetic similarity than that between humans and chimpanzees

Richard Dawkins is a another good author to read if you are interested in finding out more about the meaning of life and evolution - I would recommend the selfish gene and the extended phenotype as a very good starting point.

Answer 4

We are still animals. We were possibly a genetic mistake, or cross species - from other species long extinct.

We think we are better because allegedly we are more inteligent. We are maybe just more aware that other beings other than ourself are capable of feeling pain etc. too. Something some animals maybe can't understand. They possibly do not understand what death is & what it is they are doing when they kill/harm another animal. Whereas we do know & some still do it anyway. How stupid are we? Personally I'm ashamed to be human!

I'm not sure about the whole God thing. Maybe there were species more inteligent than us (that we could class as God(s)) & they died or moved on. However I am sure no religion exists today that hasn't been messed about/changed in some way by man. It is instinct to alter things for our own selfish ends.

Call me wrong if you like. But what is certain is we will one day become extinct too. Who cares where we came from, it's where we are going to that counts. We care too much about stupid useless things like this, instead of the important things in life, like trying to ease each others pain & get along. Be us animal, mamal or human who cares. We all feel pain etc. Stupid disagreements like this see us kill one another. Killing is never a good idea, there is always another way. Pretending we are better than others, gives us authority over others where it should not be. Live & let live, not quite getting through to us.

Answer 5

It seems that there is 'evidence' to show that 'evolution' is taking place now. Whether or not it is unequivocal evidence, remains to be produced convincingly to us non-evolutionists. There is less (if any) fossil evidence to show that human evolved from a common ancestor with the chimp (Pierolapithcus catalauncius, though they're not sure about this, nor anything else early fossil wise - see source below). So, if you're not an Evolutionists nor a Creationist, like me, you're still in the dark with the rest of us.

Answer 6

Yes.


is the study of ancient humans based on fossil evidence, tools and other signs of human habitation. The modern field of paleoanthropology began in the 19th century with the discovery of "Neanderthal man". The eponymous skeleton was found in 1856, but there had been finds elsewhere since 1830.

The idea that humans are similar to certain great apes had been discussed and argued for some time, but the idea of the biological evolution of species in general was not legitimized until after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Though Darwin's first book on evolution did not address the specific question of human evolution - "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," was all Darwin wrote on the subject - the implications of evolutionary theory were clear to contemporary readers

Answer 7

No, we are still animals. We evolved and stayed animals.
Below is the wikipedia link showing a timeline of human evolution.

Answer 8

Humans _are_ animals. We are members of the ape family. We are more closely related to chimps than chimps are to gorillas. There is not a single body structure, bone, organ or chemical that we have that chimps don't. Our DNA is about 95% identical to that of chimps.

It is a fact that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors. The Theory of Evolution is the best explanation we have for how this happened.

Answer 9

Evolution exists and this is a fact. Most scientists say we have a common ancestor with the apes. Though there are some questions about how evolution happens and according to my opinion there are a lot of theories and facts that doubt the theories already exist.

Answer 10

Humans are just an another animal.

There's very good evidence that all life on earth came from the same origin, the genetic code of all life is "written" in the same "language".

For example, and to simplify, the sequence of genes that control the development of a fruit fly's wings is only slightly different to the one that makes a human's arms grow.

Answer 11

Humans ARE animals, contrary to what some religious zealots would like to believe. Our ancestors were animals and we are animals, so yes, we did evolve from animals.