Atheists who say we come from a common ancestor?

Question

what is a common ancestor???

it dont make sense because then everyone would be related

how can people be all different colours and be related? its so confusing

Answer 1

A lemur like animal turned into all primates, apes,monkeys,and humans. Of course some remained lemurs

Answer 2

a common great^N grandparent.


Considering that we all have 2 parents, 2^2 (4) grandparents, 2^3 (8) great grandparents, it does not take to many generations for everyone on the planet to be an ancestor of yours.

For example 30 generations (about 1000 years) gives you about 1 billion ancestors. not far of the global population at the time.


This is very simplistic model and in reality we have much fewer ancestors as individuals fill multiple positions. For example a person from Africa and another from Alaska are unlikely to have had a common ancestor only 1000 years ago.

However there is a way with female mitochondrial DNA to work it out.


Yes, everyone is distantly related to each other.

I can not help it if that 'does not make sense' to you. It is the reality of the situation.

Go back far enough and all primates are related. Back further and all mammals are related. Back again all animals are related. Go back to the origin of life and all living organisms are related.

3.9 Billion years is an awfully long time, allowing for little changes to build up into big differences.

Answer 3

Oh my! First, I am not an atheist. Second, do you really think the story of Adam and Eve makes us all somehow less related than the fossil evidence of a common ancestor?

Answer 4

A common ancestor is someone who we are all related to. I believe a Plesiadapiform (spelling?) is a common ancestor of apes (including us).

Answer 5

An ancestor of common animals. In our Hominidae family it's of the humans, apes and monkeys, etc. Our common ancestor from several million years ago is an ape-like creature.

Answer 6

Primates are mammals that contain lemurs, monkeys, apes and people. The Strepsirrhini, or “moist-nosed” primates, which contain lemurs and lorises, branched off around sixty 3 million years in the past. previous international monkeys and apes divided from New international monkeys approximately 40 million years in the past. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probable resembles the situation-unfastened ancestor of recent international monkeys and apes, lived approximately 29 million years in the past. The apes chop up from previous international monkeys approximately 25 million years in the past. people and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years in the past. Of the macaque's virtually 3 billion DNA base pairs, ninety 3.5 in keeping with cent are comparable to those in the human genome. that is not unpredicted for a species whose lineage diverged from our very own approximately 25 million years in the past. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged merely 6 million years in the past, are approximately ninety 8 in keeping with cent comparable. One confusing discovery is that quite a few mutations that reason genetic illnesses in people - which includes phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which bring about psychological retardation - are the traditional form in macaques and, probably, our very own ancestors. So on each and each chop up the unique have been given left in the back of to stay because it grew to become into! the 1st real hominid has been shown to virtually extremely arrived in the great Rift Valley yet as a manufactured from evolving from that is monkey and ape ancestry!! in many techniques attempting to disclaim those information is worse than the creationinsts fantasies!! the two instruct a want to forget approximately with regards to the actuality!!

Answer 7

It is an organism from which both parties in question have descended. This organism spawned multiple new organisms through evolution, two of which correspond to the organisms in question.

I.e. a lemur like mammal's spawn evolved into many different mammals, two groups of which being humans and other primates.

Answer 8

Common Ancestor:
noun; (en) com-un ann-ses-tor:

1. An ancestor that we have in common.

Answer 9

what about non atheists that say we come from a common ancestor...can they answer too?

Answer 10

Its only confusing if your head is filled with superstitious creationist based nonsense. Clarity is what you require and that comes from reason and evidence.