if the human race dies out would monkeys again evolve into humans again?
2007-07-16 12:26:33 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no.. haven't you seen Planet of the Apes?
and besides its Bonobos... Bonobos evolve into humans... and yes.. google it..
2007-07-16 12:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by ShinerKazzmo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
humans are apes, not monkeys. the common ancestor of humans and monkeys lived about 30 million years ago vs. 6 million years ago for chimpanzees and humans. monkeys and chimps and other species that are shoots off the human branch have evolved just as much as humans have, just by surviving and reproducing for the same amount of time, although obviously they have not evolved much in the way of intelligence. but there is no reason to expect that evolution would produce a species exactly like humans again - evolution is not a progressive process of becoming more human (or even more intelligent). it only happens when the environment favours it, and apparently there is no great pressure on most animals to evolve higher intelligence.
2007-07-16 12:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We did indeed evolve from monkeys (our ancestor of 25 million years ago was an Old World monkey).
With humans gone, and with the other great apes gone (since we humans have almost exterminated them), it's entirely possible that one or even several monkey species will eventually give rise to a successor species that has the sort of integrated consciousness intelligence that modern Homo sapiens sapiens enjoys today. No, these future descendants of modern monkeys would not be humans. Don't hold your breath. We're about 23 million years separated from our monkey ancestors. You can assume that it would take millions of years for modern monkeys to give rise to a sentient species -- if at all.
If at all. We're sort of a quirk. Note that the dinosaurs were around for many millions of years, and never gave rise to technological intelligence.
2007-07-16 13:13:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Monkeys never did evolve into humans in the first place, and science doesn't claim they did. Got a problem with the logic switch in your brain?
2007-07-16 12:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Shall we all kill ourselves and find out? Monkeys and humans appear to have a common ancestor BTW. Humans did not evolve from the monkeys we know today.
2007-07-16 12:31:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Monkeys will evolve, but not into humans. When humans die, that's it. There would be another race to reach sentience though. My bets are on the dolphins.
2007-07-16 12:32:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Human beings did not evolve from monkeys, that was some silly theory, yes we may have similar DNA, I have similar DNA to my wife but I am not a woman.
2013-11-23 03:42:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monkeys didn't evolve into humans in the first place, and no, that would be impossible.
2007-07-16 12:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not exactly. Chimps have moved along just since we started to observe them. They are to the point of making spears to hunt with. They will continue to evolve rather humans die or not. But they won't be humans ever although they may end up as smart.
2007-07-16 12:32:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
When you try to simplify it to this idiotic (not to mention tired) question, you just prove that you have no real interest in the answer. Go do yourself and everyone here a favor and do even to most perfunctory research into the field of human evolution and then ask a decent question.
2007-07-16 12:33:32 · answer #10 · answered by slushpile reader 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If monkeys ever evolved in the first place, then why are there still monkeys left that haven't evolved into human??
2007-07-16 12:30:05 · answer #11 · answered by Annie 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋