2007-10-27 03:41:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Humans are apes, chimps are close cousins, but as it suggests not our ancestor.
2007-10-27 06:19:32 · update #1
The current single species of human, Homo sapeins sapiens, evolved from earlier species of humans in the same genus, such as Homo habilis. The genus most likely evolved from Australopithecus, which like humans were a group included in the Great Ape family, Hominidae. The basal Hominids would likely have been called monkeys or perhaps lemurs if they were alive today. As others have suggested, further back in time our ancestors were even more unlike us, including hundreds of millions of years that our ancestors were aquatic vertebrates. We evolved from cyanobacteria as did all life, and it took a long time and a lot of tiny changes each generation to get here... and unless you are an exact clone of your parents, you are continuing the billions-of-years-old family tradition.
That, or else somebody magically poofed us into existence as we are today but set up all the DNA, geological, and other evidence to trick us into thinking we evolved. If so, they put more effort into tricking us than making us.
Note: if we did not evolve from apes, then we did not evolve from members of our own biological family... including earlier humans. I'll never understand why people are reluctant to include us with the apes yet don't hesitate to admit we are mammals and thereby group us with dogs and rats.
2007-10-27 04:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans, chimps and gorillas all evolved from a COMMON ANCESTOR, some 4 to 5 million years ago.
2007-10-27 04:50:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you wanna go back 3.8 billion years, then cyanobacteria.
The closest living relative of the modern human is the chimp.
Modern humans emerged about 200,000 years ago.
Humans did not evolve *from* apes. We share a common ancestor.
2007-10-27 04:44:26 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Chimps are our closest relatives about 7 million years ago. gorilla 10 million years ago, orang-utan between 10 and 20 million years, gibbon 20 million years ago monkeys 30 million years ago. Believe me i checked on a chart of relatives to humans.Good luck
2007-10-27 03:57:58 · answer #4 · answered by 10 out of 10 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apes of some sort according to earth science... or bossibly fish, or maybe to apes are what evolved from fish
2007-10-27 03:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by La Leona 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
scientists said that too many of the current creatures are evolved from the same origin, and that the last evolution of human was from monkey.
but i don;t believe that, i'm muslim and in qur'an it is told that the human was created dierectly by god, as the first human was Adam.
2007-10-27 03:58:44 · answer #6 · answered by Laith Attar 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
cyanobacteria, the first living things
2007-10-27 03:52:27 · answer #7 · answered by natrub 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
apes
2007-10-27 05:07:24 · answer #8 · answered by suni 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
if u r christian then god made us
2007-10-27 06:19:50 · answer #9 · answered by steph_steph_star 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋