If humans evolved from apes, why aren't humans evolving into something else?

Answer 1

Humans did not evolve from apes!!! Apes are apes and human beings are human beings!!!
God made everything, and He made man and animals separately, on different days.
Good luck and may God bless you.

Answer 2

I agree with the others who point out that your question is technically flawed because we didn't evolve from apes -- I also believe we evolved from a common ancestor.

Humans also evolved to use tools, and you can see the way we've evolved to make more and more complicated tools. There's a HUGE difference even in the last 100 years -- today we have computers, and cell phones, and jet planes that whisk us half way around the world in less than a day.

I think we will probably evolve into humans who can use those tools, and those who can't. Those who can't -- I don't know what will happen to them. They will be dependent on those who can, and may even die out. Or, there might be, in the future, a science fiction-like scenario where the ones who can't evolve wind up as sort of servants who do all the grunt work for people who are using tools well. Or it might be a symbiotic relationship, where each respect the others' work. I mean, running a computer might be highly evolved, but you can't eat it for lunch. SOMEONE has to do the farm work.

In any case, I disagree about the interbreeding being a mark of evolution. That's all pure surface stuff. If you believe in evolution, you believe we all came from Africa. Whites are definitely evolved to handle the low sunlight levels, and I suspect blacks are also evolved to handle the high sunlight levels. AND NOTE: EVOLVED DOES NOT MEAN BETTER. It just means changed. Some evolutions will turn out to be stupid, useless and wind up in getting that person and all his/her descendents killed. (Look at some of the genetic diseases.)

I suspect it's hard to see evolution because we're looking at it from the inside. Most evolutionary changes take 1000s of years -- even millions -- to accomplish. But we can see some little ones right now. Look at strawberries for example. You couldn't get the super-sweet, super-big strawberries a hundred years ago. Now there are several types -- pushed along their evolutionary path by humans, but still, there they are. Completely new strawberries! Hardly touched by the hand of God.

I hope this helps you look at evolution in a different light.

Answer 3

First of all,we are evolving into something else but since it isn't a drastic change one sees in a lifetime, u obviously can't tell by just looking. Secondly, humans didn't actually evolve from apes but parallelly to them. We and apes have similar beginnings but they are not the same ancestors. They simply evolved at the same time we did.

Answer 4

No one ever said that humans evolved from apes; we did have a common mammalian ancestor. Humans and apes have evolved on unique genetic paths.

And the other posters are correct. We continue to evolve with each generation as a specie however we will not evolve into a non human specie.

Answer 5

I think we ARE evolving ... notice that people today are substantially taller and "bigger" overall than people in the 14th and 15th Centuries (and it's not JUST our diets which are doing this).

Also - there's a lot more inter-racial breeding than there used to be ... creating a more homogenous blend of the "human species" than there used to be. We're also breeding a lot of genetic weaknesses that wouldn't "survive" in a more hostile environment... look at how many people need glasses to see properly.

Since humans have become the "dominant" species on this planet - we're changing the world to suit our needs. Thus eliminating a lot of the "survival of the fittest" genetic culling of our species which there used to be.

We're evolving... remember, evolution takes a LONG time - sometimes eons before there's a real noticable change in the species.

Answer 6

Humans didn't evolve from apes, they both evolved from a common ancestor. Most of the time one species doesn't evolve in its entirety into another (although this can happen). Usually, speciation will occur when a species divides into two subspecies. Let's say part of the human race went to live on Mars with little interaction with earthlings. Don't you think in let's say a million years they would be two different species? And even if this didn't happen, don't you think that in 10 million years people might look very differently than they do today? Evolution takes time. Just because you don't witness it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Answer 7

evolution is though to come from natural selection, the law of survival of the fittest. If a faster fish is made it probally have fast kids and so evolution happens and eventually there is the fast and the slow. We have no natural preditors and so will not evolve unless certain elements cause mass wipe outs. A plague killing half the population and leaving the other immune population is evolutionary step. Of course we are evoling wierdly right now.We are using our bodies less and minds more. Soon we will not be able to move our arms or legs and need alternate forms of transportation. sorry about the long answer

Answer 8

We are. In the 1700s, people were much, much shorter than we are today. Colors were more diverse (black people were truly -black- instead of cinnamon and brown, etc). We are becoming a more uniform color, we are growing taller, we are living longer, and the longer it keeps up, the less we'll look like we do today. We'll still call ourselves human, but what's human hundreds of years from now is not going to be the same as what it is now. This is a really bad attempt at arguing creationism. Evolution is an on-going process, not fixed and done with.

Answer 9

I remember reading this a while back, and this comment caught my eye.

"Maybe evolution is switching from something random or nuanced, or even divine... To something methodical, starting with US. Changing DNA scientifically and trying things that nature would take millions of years to test out, within some of our lifetimes. You had some good points EDT, save your post, and look back at it in 10-20 years.

You might also be dyslexic (as I am, or is it as am I? :).

Science is based on the observed, religion is usually based on faith, but both apples and oranges are fruits that can be rotten or tasty at times."

I didn't want to take credit for it, because in a way, I think that the poster is correct - and the source might show you other viewpoints.

Answer 10

Recollecting that evolution abhors a quick make over, it will take forsaken countless ages until humans evolve into something else. Of course, there is gene technology that can do it in a few years.

Answer 11

Humans did not evolve from apes, we evolved from a common ancestor.