I'm just curious
2007-10-04 19:49:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
They didn't
2007-10-05 01:04:28 · answer #1 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Rudra and Howard are right. This question comes up over and over, so sometimes people get a bit testy; if that happens, try to be forgiving... The thing is that humans evolved from some primate way, way back that was related to othher primates that gave rise to apes or monkeys. Humans did not evolve from modern apes, nor are humans particularly closely related to monkeys. To respond to the second part of your question, reptiles evolved from amphibians, and yet amphibians are still here. Both of them evolved from fish, but we still have fish. Everything evolved from simple unicellular organisms, but they're still around and thriving. Evolution is not replacement.
2007-10-05 00:40:55 · answer #2 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans did not evolve from apes, and certainly not monkeys. Homo Sapiens Sapiens and apes both evolved from a common ancestor, although this is the well-noted 'missing link'. Recent theories put this elusive originator in the Pliocene era, 8 to 5 million years ago.
This creature descended from squirrel-like shrews, which in turn evolved from ground-dwelling omnivores similar to hedgehogs, and before that, starfish.
The latest comparison of genomes of humans and our closest (genetically) relative, the chimpanzee, shows that the split wasmuch later than previously assumed. This means that we quite possibly interbred to produce unrecorded, and now extinct, hybrid species before the final separation 5.4 million years ago.
While Homo Sapiens are from a recent African 'twig' on a branch of the tree of "modern" human evolution, genetic evidence suggests that one of the first populations outside of Africa was established on the Andaman Islands, just off the coast of India, some 60,000 years ago.
2007-10-05 04:15:51 · answer #3 · answered by Philbert1969 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
according to science humans r evolved frm monkeys and apes.
according to science it is also said tat changes r nature's property but whom adopt this change properly get change
same in the monkeys and apes those tried or adopted the change todat they r humans except r still monkeys and apes
2007-10-05 01:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by rohan_rahul_lovely 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You "evolved" from your parents, why are they still here?
Evolutionary change is not a ladder, with one type being replaced by another. It is a large branching bush. We have a common ancestor with apes, and that creature had a common ancestor with monkeys. Check out The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins.
2007-10-04 20:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by Howard H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
coz we didnt transform from monkeys .....they are not our fathers.....the fact is they are our brothers coz we share a common ancestor....meaning there was a ancestor which "branced" and "diverged" monkeys, apes and humans all evolved from there.....
i would recommend u to read a little bit of popular science books on evolution
2007-10-04 21:04:32 · answer #6 · answered by rudra d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we didn't come from monkey's and apes, God made us (any living thing) individually.
2007-10-04 20:09:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋