If humans evolved from monkey's/apes, why are they still here?

Answer 1

One word ... BRANCHING.

If you don't understand branching, you don't understand evolution. If you *do* understand branching, then questions like this are *trivial* to answer.

Evolution is NOT a linear chain, with one species replacing its ancestor completely (if it was, that would be a really STUPID theory, as there would logically only be one species today!). Instead, evolution is a constantly branching bush.

What causes a species to split into two branches? If a subpopulation is isolated from the rest of the species for enough generations, that subpopulation will evenutally lose the ability to interbreed with the parent species. The one species is now two species. (This process ... 'speciation' ... can be demonstrated quite easily in a simple lab experiment.) Once split like this, the two branches can never again interbreed, never again exchange genetic material (such as mutations). As long as neither goes extinct, both branches will continue to get more and more different over time.

With this in mind, the image of monkeys->apes->humans is the CARTOON version of evolution promoted by people who are anti-evolution ... using the tactic of presenting a ridiculous (and incorrect) version of the theory just so they can then call it "ridiculous." (This is what we call a "straw man" tactic ... misrepresenting your opponents position in order to make it an easier target.)

Humans did not evolve from what we now call monkeys and apes (the species we now see). Instead monkeys and apes are separate branches ... and what are now humans, chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, etc. are all many branches from that ape branch. Monkeys and apes are not some sort of intermediate stage on our branch of evolution ... they are themselves the endpoints of their own branches. Each branch shares a common ancestor with the other branches ... but once the split has occurred, they (all existing monkey and ape species) have continued evolving just as we have.

So (for example), a chimp is not some sort of "unevolved human" ... it is a fully evolved chimp.

Branching, branching, branching. That's your answer.

Answer 2

Humans did not evolve from monkeys/apes. Thats why they are still here. And even if we did, the process would have occurred slowly according to Darwin. Therefore some monkeys would still exist either because they had not figured out how to evolve or did not have the genes or "mutations" neccessary to evolve

Answer 3

Monkeys, apes, humans, and even plants all have a common ancestor, which is a single celled organism. That common ancestor is now extinct, although other single celled organisms still fill many ecological niches. As far as the order primates go, all living species of primates share a common primate ancestor (or primitive monkey, if you will) that goes back 40 million years. All Hominoidae apes (includes H. sapiens) have a common ancestor (or ancestral ape, or Ramapithecus, if you prefer) that lived 16 million years ago. Those common ancestors are now extinct. The closest living relative (relative--not ancestor) of H. sapiens are chimpanzees (also bonobos or pygmy chimps). Our common ancestor began to diverge into seperate chimp/bonobo and hominid species 10 million years ago, but exchanged genetic information (interbred) until 4-5 million years ago when we became reproductively isolated. This view of human evolution comes from forensic proof offered by the study of human and chimp molecular genetics. It generally fits with fossil evidence as well.

In the last 4 million years modern humans have evolved from ape-like Australopithecines while modern chimpanzees have evolved from rather gracile apes (known from fossil evidence) to more robust rainforest apes.

Answer 4

that's a consistently performing false impression that creationists seem to think of 'proves' some hollow interior the evolutionary technology. in reality, it purely proves how uneducated some all human beings is because of the fact they continute to perpetuate this concept without fairly understanding it. As grew to become into noted various situations, human beings did not EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS/APES!!! Evolutionists do not say that, people who disbelieve evolution do. human beings and monkeys/apes have a user-friendly ancestor from whom we the two developed, however in diverse procedures. The cousin analogy is a smart one for understanding. You and your 2nd cousin, two times bumped off, are appropriate. not because of the fact you're a similar, or because of the fact one developed from the different, yet because of the fact someplace interior the previous you the two have a user-friendly ancestor, to whom you're the two appropriate, the place your 2 relatives timber converge. although, purely because of the fact you're derived from a similar relatives as him/her, does not recommend that they might't additionally exist. purely because of the fact your loved ones went one way, and their relatives went yet another, does not recommend that's necessary to be a similar, or which you the two won't be able to exist. So, your question is in keeping with an entire false impression.

Answer 5

There is a misconception in your question,
Tha false premise, is that human evolved from monkeys,/apes..
Human have NOT evolved from such....they are related species, parallel to ourselves, who are forms of evolved separate apes, but in the very moment we are NOT evolve FROM them, we do evolve together with them....
The word species is misused in the question...

Answer 6

It must be a plot hatched in the religious forum to have someone ask this same question over and over everyday to irritate to death those who know biology. An electronic form of Chinese water torture.

If you really want to know, you could have searched for "Human Evolution Ape Monkey" before you posted and found hundreds who have asked this naive question before you.

Answer 7

Evolutionists don't believe that we evolved from monkeys, they think it was a common ancestor.