If people came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

Question

If people came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
i know it's early for drinks (unless you haven't even been to bed yet) but we have a new guy named Mike F in here and i wanted to offer him a welcome drink

**pours a couple of shots of baileys into her coffee**

Answer 1

People don't come from monkey's, they come from a particualr species of monkey that had the right "stuff" for evolving into humans.

**drinks the baileys from the bottle***

Answer 2

>If we came from monkeys where did monkeys come from? We didn't actually evolve from monkeys. We evolved from primates which, at some point millions of years ago, resembled modern monkeys. Scientists HAVE traced back the lineage from there pretty much all the way to the beginning of life. There are some spots where the record is hazy, but the general idea is pretty solid. From early primates we go back to other Tertiary mammals, from there to Mesozoic mammals (which lived alongside dinosaurs, pterosaurs and so on), from there to reptiles during the Permian, then to amphibians during the Carboniferous, then to fish during the Devonian and Silurian, back to primitive chordates, to worm-like invertebrates, to early radial life forms, to primitive multicellular life forms something like sponges, to single-celled eukaryotes, to more primitive single-celled life forms, and eventually to pre-cellular life forms (unfortunately we haven't found any recognizable fossils of these last, due to their tiny size and the vast amount of time between now and then, however it appears that they first arose roughly 3.5 billion years ago, or possibly up to a few hundred million years longer). Note that for the most part, each of these stages I just mentioned takes considerably longer than the one after it in chronological order (before it in the order I listed them). So for example, our entire evolutionary history as primates is only a fraction of the length of our ancestors' evolutionary history as sponge-like organisms.

Answer 3

Good question why did humans come from my avatar.......because they wanted to be as cute as me but they didn't do it right so for now just look at my beautiful face.....

But I really don't know where we came from the whole monkey evolving thing is just a myth there is no serious facts behind that.......they will continue to do research and by the time our grandkids are 80 they may have an answer...... And that is a long time because I am only 15 and don't even have a kid yet let alone a grandkid.............................................................................................................


Great Question,
Fl-Fishermen12354

Answer 4

People didn't "come from" monkeys. Humans AND monkeys had a common ancestor a long time ago, which was neither human nor monkey, but something even more primitive.

Answer 5

Thanks for the coffee...

Join me for free gummybears, by the way :-) LOL
Welcome to Mike F!

Well, I don't think that people literally came from monkeys but there was a 'missing link' somewhere in the history of mankind. Monkeys shouldn't be taken too literally here though. We are humanoids and there WERE evidences of variations in species prior to the uprising of the **** Sapiens.

Answer 6

Is Mike F a monkey????

Monkeys shouldnt drink!

Answer 7

One is constantly amazed that so many individuals who possess a religious leaning and supposedly follow such a philosophy have such a difficult time with reading and comprehension so as to make that person unable to read and follow the arguement as Darwin presented the same in his tome, "The Origin of the Species".

Mr. Darwin at no time in said work nor thereafter made the claim that humans were the descendents of the apes.

To all such persons who obviously can not or do not read and then present their ignorance as a challenge to others (who do and can read), please stop it.

Ignoracne must be replaced by knowledge accompanied by reason and understanding.

May it be well with you.

Answer 8

OK. I don't believe in Darwinian Evolution. I do believe that the Earth is 6000 years old.

Here is how Darwinian Evolution explains it: A subset of monkeys evolved (through natural selection, genetic drift, and all definitions of evolution into humans). This happened in the same way that the different types of dogs or cats evolved (called mezzo evolution, and is different to Darwinian Evolution) basically a group of monkeys became a 'species' of monkeys like the chimpanzees and gorillas are 'species' of monkeys but this group of monkeys continued to 'evolve' and became human.

Hope that answers your question.

God Bless.

Ps. Welcome to the rumble and enjoy your coffee Mike :)

Answer 9

LOL

When christ-cultists ask that question, I like to reply thusly...

Disregarding, for the moment, the fact that evolution does not purport that we 'came from monkeys', let me ask you this: "If North America was colonized by the English, then how come there are still Englishmen?"

Once you are able to understand how stupid my question is (above), then you could actually be on the road to understanding just how stupid your own question is.

Answer 10

According to the theory of evolution, different organisms evolve differently. Biologically, chimps share 99% of our genes. We are more closely related to chimps than lions are to tigers. According to evolutionist, we evolved from the some organsims probably 20000 years ago, and depending on the enviroment, we evolved differently.