i dont understand why apes are stil not evolving if we are ment to have evolved from them?
2007-09-17 03:42:44 · 20 answers · asked by smile! 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
it just goes to prove that we did not come from apes.
2007-09-17 03:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by morningstar6707 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Hi there.
They are still in the process, but you may be misunderstanding evolution. It happens to individuals, not groups.
Say an ape is born with a random mutation (which is quite usual, as no two are alike). If this gives an advantage, then this ape will go on to be a more successful breeder. If the mutation holds true through the generations, then these "better" apes will eventually come to outnumber the other apes and take over.
Humans will then see that there used to be a different ape that the current apes have descended from and call the process "evolution".
It takes a long time in mammals for new mutations to come to the fore and prove capable of transmission to offspring, so we will not easily see the process occurring.
In human terms, we now spend so long ensuring that every variant of humanity gets to breed, that it seems unlikely that we will "evolve" ever again - hence the interest in genetically modified humans, as the next best thing.
Cheers, Steve.
2007-09-19 05:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by Steve J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Into what? and where??
Homosapiens (us) and the apes share a common ancestor but obviously we have raced up the evolutionary ladder to fill just about every available survivable habitat on the planet.
We have a habit of killing each other in an attempt to ensure we have access to anything we require for our survival, and there is archaeological evidence that we had a hand in eradicating the close competition from the ape world which was evolving alongside ourselves.
Those apes that are still around live in areas we could not survive in comfortably (yet) or are close to extinction from loss of habitat or hunting for food or fun.
It is difficult to evolve biologically when your species is in general decline.
2007-09-17 04:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ring of Uranus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We did not evolve from apes. Man and ape share common ancestors. So many people seem to misunderstand this. We are not descended from apes.
2007-09-20 14:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by curious connie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says they're not?
Evolution is the process of very small changes over a long time span. These changes help the animals to adapt to their environment. If you're not studying ape bones from 1000 or 10,000 or 100,000 years ago, you'll probably never notice the changes.
Were you expecting them to grow 30% bigger with each generation, or to develop an arm shaped like an axe to let them chop down trees to get to choice fruit?
2007-09-17 03:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The apes of today are not the apes of yesterday. They have already evolved, adapted to their habitat as we have. As changes in habitat occur, so do adaptations occur in the animals that inhabitat. It takes more than your life time to notice an changes and it takes many generations for any changes to become significant enough to be noticed.
The changes that we will most notice will be extinction.
2007-09-17 03:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by peggy m 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
in case you have been descended out of your mothers and dads, how come your mothers and dads did no longer vanish once you have been born? this is a similar question. Evolution says that human beings and moden apes share a uncomplicated ancestor. It does no longer say that apes "became into" human beings or the different such nonsense.
2016-10-04 21:25:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We didn't evolve from any specific ape. We simply share our genetic ancestry. We are from the same group.
Also, they are. Evolution is a long and slow process, you just can't see it day to day if you see what I mean. i.e. the apes that were alive 2000 years ago were probably quite different to the apes we see today.
2007-09-17 03:52:07 · answer #8 · answered by Timothy S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Look in the mirror - there's your proof. We ARE apes, and we and all the other apes are evolving all the time.
2007-09-18 00:13:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Recent research has shown evolution in action on both the ape and human genomes, as the previous poster said, it's not dramatic enough to be noticed.
2007-09-17 04:10:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are different schools of thoughts.
According to one and well established, our ancestors who still continued to evolve got separated from Apes.
Therefore, we both belong to two divisions. They stopped and we continued to till humans- Erect ones.
2007-09-18 00:46:20 · answer #11 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋