Man supposedly evolved from Monkeys {Primates} They are our closest relation in the animal world, and it has been proven that Man can control an animals behavior....So....If you give Primates Tools and Weapons ... Would they learn how to use them ? Would they have to be taught ? or would they be curious, then leave them alone and resume their Monkey life ?
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Then part #2 of this question is ......If they ignore what was presented to improve their lives, How could we have possibly evolved from them ?
2007-09-08 20:01:42 · 10 answers · asked by Bo Remmington . American ! 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
NeNi --- you are to the basis of my question....During my travels this past week I heard the same N.P.R. PROGRAM. And thats what got me thinking and caused me to post this ?
2007-09-08 20:41:55 · update #1
First of all, we did not evolve FROM them, we share a common ancestor with them. There's a difference; it means that at some point we all branched out in different directions and evolved into different species. Some you see today, others are extinct.
There have been numerous experiments done with primates, especially chimps and gorillas, and in fact they do use tools to some extent. However, they do not seem to have the ability to impart knowledge to each other the way humans do. Just yesterday I heard a story on NPR (national public radio) talking about recent experiments done with human and primate babies. It was very interesting and talked about the differences and similarities.
If you google it I'm sure you will find it. I believe it was either on Sept. 6th or 7th that the story was on.
2007-09-08 20:18:18 · answer #1 · answered by neni 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
This questions only throws up a whole lot more of questions, I think that every living thing is constantly evolving at a massive different time scale, some of man’s remarkable progress have only came about through luck. I believe that man's progress was due to greed and selfishness, probably to enhance the rapid progress of apes we need to educate them on how to be more selfish and ruthless and everything else will follow.
I think the key factor is how long does it take? If we go down the road of evolution how long did the fish take to evolve into a monkey? Or compare a professor of science to someone that is simple or have a head injury. I have decided to stop here and approach it at a different angle. Would civilization eventually exist over an extremely long period of time, if humans never inhabited the earth? Which creature on earth would have eventually achieved to develop a society that we are accustom too today. Could there be intelligent life on other planets that do not contain a species such as man.
2007-09-09 17:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by colinberry1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, first monkeys and primates are not interchangeable terms. Seriously, man never evolved from monkeys!! The common ancestor that we share with other primates was never a monkey!!
Secondly, man can control the behavior of men. What does this have to do with anything??
Primates, specifically chimpanzees do make their own tools and weapons, so yes, other primates do have the capacity to learn how to use our tools. An example of this would be apes that have learned to use sign language. Language is a tool. Visit your local zoo and you will see that many of the primates are making use of human artifacts.
The second part of your question merely shows your profound lack of understand of evolution. Evolution is not some easy idea such as one religion might put forth. Please visit your local library and check out some books on the topic of human evolution in order to further develop your understanding. Many public libraries and all college/university libraries will carry introductory level text books in physical anthropology and biology. I suggest one of these.
2007-09-09 06:13:03 · answer #3 · answered by skunk pie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Recent study showed that young children have similar physical cognition to apes, but superior social cognition.
This means that humans are better at learning from and about each other.
This trait could have evolved gradually as our brains grew in size to three times the size of ape brains.
I guess there must have been a localised environment where this behaviour gave us an advantage.
2007-09-09 10:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We share a common ancestor with every living animal on this planet but the primates share a closer ancestor than the rest of them. The prosimians were (~65 million yrs ago) ancestors of all primates. The hominid lines split off from the lines that developed Chimps & other apes about 5 to 7 million years ago.
I read of an experiment conducted by an anthropoligist where he placed food in a container requiring a sharp object to open it... then showed a chimp how to flint nap sharp tools. Upon examing the container the chimp picked up rocks & began to throw them at a boulder until one broke with a sharp face.... he then used this to open the container. I suspect the 1st tools made by hominids were made in just this way.
The 1st hominids were about on par with a chimp in tool making & reasoning ability, but had a greater ability to walk up right... thus increasing their line of sight & ability to avoid predators & carry objects back to the safety of trees. They eventually began to scavenge meat left by predators. This was not a straight line evolution as many in the media like to depict. Some lines of hominids were evolutionary dead ends, but one group due to the larger protien intake, developed a larger brain & began to use rocks to extract the marrow from bones. Thus the development of tools led to more protien & a larger brain.
To answer part 2, many animals use tools but none of them have mastered the use of fire yet. Some need that forces a bottleneck & selects for a trait must happen to select for a survival trait (larger brain & langage use) & that has not happened to any other primate.
2007-09-09 05:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
#1 actually, the theory states that we both had a common ancestor. they *do* indeed use tools, without human intervention, as do other animals including some of the more intelligent birds.
#2 they don't ignore them. we didn't evolve from them. it's called natural selection, just as you inherited certain traits from each parent, and a sibling inherits others. certain traits are better suited to the environment. thus one may get a six figure salary, or lands a college sports scholarship, while the other works in fast food. only in the animal kingdom it is a matter of survival, unlike modern society, where even the physically weak and mentally challenged are given the chance to procreate. gotta love that modern medical science.
2007-09-09 03:17:05 · answer #6 · answered by Lancelot 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2007-09-09 03:14:57 · answer #7 · answered by dr c 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
That's an insightful point. It was once said that man evolved from candlejack and he tra
2007-09-09 03:09:33 · answer #8 · answered by Nig G 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If man came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? shouldn't they have all become men?
2007-09-09 08:54:25 · answer #9 · answered by MFREEBIRD 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Read theory of evolution again and you shall be able to find answer to your question yourself.
2007-09-09 03:12:18 · answer #10 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋