2007-10-23 14:48:38 · 8 answers · asked by lovesgirls82 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Just for the record, our common ancestor was an ape. We didn't evolve from chimps as many people like to think though.
Modern apes evolved from a common ancestor farther back which shared the common ancestor with old world monkeys and no doubt were similar to monkeys. Before that it was something like a lemur...
2007-10-23 19:47:04 · answer #1 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who said human beings evolved from apes? I will not stand by and have you insult apes in that manner.
We both evolved from a common ancestor. Look in any encyclopedia and use your mind. When Eve ate the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, God said "Man has become like unto one of us, with the knowledge of good and evil." The Lord says your a god, and your a god because you can think! So do it!
2007-10-23 17:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by Major Bob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Specifically apes evolved from anthropoid ancestors (monkey and ape like creatures) before that they evolved from likely tarsier or loris like creatures, and before that they evolved from plesiadapids, which kind of resemble mongooses.
2007-10-26 22:18:14 · answer #3 · answered by High Tide 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proto-apes, and so forth...
Some variation of primate has been around at least 60 million years. A niche was created for future dominance, once the dinosaurs became extinguished!
2007-10-23 16:10:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lemurian, perhaps even one of the oldest mammal known yet, the tree shrew... A small animal about the size of a finger that never left its habitat tree.
2007-10-24 20:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by JORGE N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Today we would call them old world monkeys which in turn came from prosimians.
2007-10-29 06:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Mlungisi W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lolololol
Have you heard the one about the Baptist and the pilot?
2007-10-24 14:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't want to know. The Adam and Eve story came from the wise ones. Duh!
2007-10-23 22:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by Heart of man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋