i know part of it is evolution
2007-09-13 15:10:14 · 16 answers · asked by Ariela M 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Yes. It is part of evolution. Theoretically, it's because humans no longer need the body features of apes because a lot of them have migrated to areas that are warm and mostly barren... say somewhere in Africa. They no longer needed the ape fur so they have been discarded over time. They no longer needed the physiology of the basic ape anatomy so they have been discarded as well. And since human beings started using their brain for hunting more than their brawn, that part of our body has been developed even more.
2007-09-13 15:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is ridiculous to ask such a question. Evolution doesn't state that apes turned into humans any more than it states that carp turned into giraffes. The nonsense that the creationists spew is designed to make it appear that evolution is unproven. Just a couple of small points. When a scientist ponders something, wondering if it might be feasible through scientific testing, it's called hypothesis. After scientific method is applied and some sort of proof is arrived at, then it becomes theory. If you truly think that it is more feasible to believe that an invisible guy who lives in the sky snapped his invisible fingers and "poof" people appeared, than to believe that when the smarter ancestor built a shelter to protect themselves from the cold and were able to propagate offspring with a better chance of survival, beating out the branch that hid under rocks, and that the reasoning skills progressed along with the lack of need for body hair to keep warm, not because of migration to other climates, but the ability to think and create shelter to live in any environment, then, when the more intellectually capable offspring didn't have body hair, it wasn't a fatal condition, because of the ability to shelter. How moronic is it to state that you believe that things evolve, oh, except the ones who have evolved the furthest. "All the other animals evolve, but the invisible guy in the sky created us."
2007-09-13 16:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by Ice 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Humans are apes. Our last common ancestor with chimpanzees would have looked a lot more like them, since what distinguishes us from them arrived gradually. There were lots of intermediate life forms in between, and skeletons of some of them (or species similar to them) have been found. The specimen Lucy, for instance, had quite a chimp-like head, but walked upright with feet more like ours. We were the most successful lineage, but at times in the past, there might have been several different species competing, all descended from the last common ancestors. The ancestors died out but their descendants have become 3 successful species (chimp, bonobo, human) occupying different niches. The ancestors aren't still around as well because they evolved - they could not stay the same because natural selection prodded them to change gradually over millions of years.
2016-04-04 19:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is so ambigous. it just happened that way. Evolution on our part got a lucky break because we were able to manipulate our environment to our comfort and thus increased learning like a tier or series of steps where we bypassed the apes. We also manipulated how we look simply by choosing how we live and accept our looks as the norm. If we looked like actual apes.. then we wouldn't know any better but love ourselves for what we look like and then the "human" appeareance will be alien to us. We wouldn't know the difference.. we would still feel the way we do now as humans.
2007-09-13 17:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because God made us this way.
Even if you do not believe in God, evolution is still a theory for a reason. As much as those who preach evoltuion as a fact would like it to be, it is not a fact, it is a still unproven theory.
It is important you understand why evolution is still an unproven theory. Contrary to what many woulod like you to believe, there is zero evidence linking one animal directly to another. So when you hear people say something like "We know this came from this because of this bone, or that fin, or this traight...", it's simply not true. It may be what they believe, but it falls far short of proving evolution.
So evolution is not the answer.
Keep it simple. Why does a dolphin look like a dolphin and not like a manatee?
Because they are different.
And, oh by the way. I do believe things evolve; a species of bird that lives in an area where
having a long thin bill makes it easier to find food will likely end up slowly having longer and longer bills as those birds are simply more likely to survive, procreate and therefor pass on their long bill genes. But I do not believe a gecko will turn into a monkey one day.
And to those who say things like YES, and give you the example that humans didn't need fur because they live in hot areas...how stupid is that? Brainwashed to the point you think humans evolved from monkeys and lost fur along the way because they live where it is hot? How many species of monkeys, as a percentage, live where it is not hot? THINK!
2007-09-13 15:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
First of all, we are apes! And yeah, morphologically, we do appear somewhat different from the other apes (DNA and other molecular evidence tells a different story, but I digress..), and its probably due to us inhabiting a different ecological niche as we were evolving. If I'm not mistaken, we evolved out on the plains and savannas, whereas the other apes evolved in forests. The different needs of each niche lead us to appear different externally.
2007-09-13 20:33:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why does a Ford Focus look like a Ford Focus and not a Ford F150 - they both come from a Model T.
2007-09-13 15:14:15 · answer #7 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you look closely we do resemble apes a little bit.
POP QUIZ!
On those two links, guess which one is an ape skeleton? Which one is a human?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/403929772_29304ca258_m.jpg
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/animals/life/images/skel_01.jpg
2007-09-13 15:13:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some people do look like apes.
We are humans and that is why we look like humans.
Why don't oranges look like apples? They are both fruits.
2007-09-13 15:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Penny 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well look much closer u will find that all animals looks like each others..
but the human is diffrent
2007-09-13 15:20:34 · answer #10 · answered by hesha3000 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋