if evolution happened between a man and a monkey, why has it stopped happening?
2007-10-29 07:58:49 · 4 answers · asked by dwane c 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Ask me again in 250 000 years.
2007-11-01 21:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by relaxification 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution didn't happen between a man and a monkey.
Where do you get this stuff from?
If you mean why is human evolution not evident, then there are two possible answers:
1) We now control our environment, therefore there is no need to evolve to adapt to it.
2) We are evolving, but so slowly that the changes are not noticeable.
2007-10-29 08:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by attakkdog 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The ancestral link between our closest living relatives, the Chimpanzee, is a few million years old. Do you really think you'll see evolution in progress for primates? Actually you do see it on a smaller scale: witness the bacteria that causes staf infection, and how it has evolved to grow immune from antibiotics within decades.
Think of it this way: If you took a group of about 10,000 humans and completely isolated them for a few hundred thousand years, eventually they would evolve apart from the main human population.
2007-10-29 08:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen L 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think it's stopped? What makes you think it's a process that is observable by a single individual during his lifetime?
2007-10-29 08:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋