monkeys are not still evolving? we see monkeys be born and die, but I have never seen one turn ito a human.
2007-07-26 13:31:09 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
they do indeed......... evolution takes millions of years.
in fact we (humans) are still evolving (and will always)
your not going to see some great jump in your lifetime.. it will happen gradually and like i said, over time.
2007-07-26 13:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Loathing 6 · 14⤊ 2⤋
Hi Cindy. I'm sure that everyone that responds after me will say the same thing I do here. We did not evolve from monkeys (primates). Humans and primates evolved together from one common ancestor. Primates are one branch of that evolution, and we are another. Just as a Polar Bear and a Brown Bear are separate, as an example, but both have a common ancestor also. That is a very simplified example, but gives an idea how evolution occurs based on climate, environment, and geological location. Evolution is a slow process compared to our lifetimes, and we won't see anything change. One thing that is a leftover with humans from a distant past is the appendix. We don't need it, and it can be removed with no after effects. The appendix, at one time was used to help to digest, hard-to-digest, items like small bones, hydes, things like that. The diet from our distant past. We don't use it anymore, but we're still born with one. Many thousands of years from now, the appendix will decrease in size in humans until one day it's gone. The same with toes. You don't use it, you lose it, applies in nature.
2007-07-26 20:49:32 · answer #2 · answered by Derail 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
~banging head repeatedly on desk~
Oh gawd, Cindy, tell me you are not that ignorant. Evolution takes millions of years. Surely you realize this?
Museums are full of fossils from prehistoric times. A prehistoric horse was only about 3-4 ft high and had toes instead of hooves. Do they still look like this today? No. Do you know why? That's right...evolution. Did they evolve like this over a period of a day, week, year, 10 years? No. It took millions of years.
Prehistoric man was only about 4 ft tall and covered in body hair, had low brow-bones and a sloped forehead. They were short, but extremely stocky. They were evolved to conform with the rough existance of their environment. The average life-span was only about 20-25 yrs old. Do we look the same now? No. We evolved because our requirements to live on this planet changed. We no longer had to work so hard to eat, so our frames were not as stocky. The weather was not as big a factor since we had clothes, resulting in the loss of body hair. We developed our brains and as a result, our life-spans increased due to knowing how to treat our ailments and because our lives were made simpler. We were no longer the hunter-gatherer. We settled into farming.
Think about it. Read a book other than a bible every once in a while. Question everything.
2007-07-26 21:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by Willow 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
monkeys and humans are both still evolving. evolution is not a process of becoming more human. where did you get that idea? if it were true then we would have to ask not only why there are still monkeys but why there are still any other organisms at all. whales are mammals that returned to the sea, but this was apparently not predestined, it just happened that their ancestors occupied environmental niches that, as they adapted to each niche in turn, lead to that result. and there are still hippopotamuses!
2007-07-26 20:50:39 · answer #4 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, have you been watching the birth of every monkey on Earth since you were born? Probably not. In fact, my guess is that you've probably never even seen ONE monkey born.
The truth is, you can't witness something unless you actually take off your blindfold and open your mind.
2007-07-26 20:37:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Evolution does not say that we came from monkeys it says that humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. Evolution happens over billions of years. Stop asking this over and over, please.
2007-07-26 20:40:52 · answer #6 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You have never seen one turn into a human? And this is what you base your decision to refute a boundlessly valuable branch of biology that is only beginning to scratch the surface of it’s benefits to humanity? Because you’ve never seen a monkey turn into a human? Are you sure you’re qualified to touch that computer?
2007-07-26 20:38:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because all it takes is 1 monkey to do something different
1 monkey off spring born different to create whole different off spring of diffrent things
evolution isnt like growing up its more like breeding.
2007-07-26 20:38:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually we do all the time, but monkey people feel that modern society would stigmatize them if their secret origins were to become public, so they do not disclose this fact.
2007-07-26 20:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by Don't Fear the Reaper 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cindy, Cindy, Cindy I hope you are kidding. Tell me you are not that stupid please.
I saw on Fox News a couple of weeks ago that they had discovered a "human" that came between 2 others that they already knew about. Scientists estimated that it took 239,000 GENERATIONS for one man to evolve into another.
Are you capable of grasping the concept of 239,000 GENERATIONS???????????? How many years is that?
Now do you realize how stupid that question is?
2007-07-26 20:41:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
from ancient apes and not modern ones which have also changed over the ages and most antecedent species have gone extinct as is true for our hominids too
2007-07-27 18:45:50 · answer #11 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋