if evolution is real, then why are there still apes if we evolved from them?

Answer 1

just because something evolves doesn't mean its siblings evolved. so the siblings go on to create more of the same species, where the new species goes on to create more of the new species.

as to the answerer who says he wants to know why there isn't a species between apes and humans, it is the apes that are the species between humans and whatever. between humans and retarded fish frogs, or between humans and bears.

we don't even necessarily come from monkeys, its just a high probability. i don't get how its so hard for you to understand evolution, but god is so believable.

if something had to create us, then what created it?

Answer 2

We didn't evolve from the modern Apes, but we share a common ancestor that lived more than a million years ago. The best explanation as to why they didn't evolve to be like us is because when the primates branched out some groups decided to stay in the jungle while others made the decision to move out of the jungle. The ones that evolved to be in the Genus Homo which includes such species as Homo Habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Homosapiens, etc...did so because early on they set out to explore and didn't stay in the bushes. Gradually as time passed the Homo became more intelligent , they evolved bigger brains, became bipedal, etc as they were expose to different environments that they wouldn't have been exposed to if they have stayed in the jungle. If we took modern Apes and put them in a controlled environment similar to those that early humans experienced and isolate them for hundreds of thousands of years it's possible they might evolve into something that resembles us!...evolution is nothing more than genetic mutations that gradually take place as organisms adapt to environmental changes. It's always happening..it's just that it happens so slow that we can't really see it. Every time a human being born they are .000001% different than their parents and over thousands of years that could mean a huge difference!

Answer 3

Your question reflects one of the biggest misconceptions and media misstatements regarding human kind and evolution. No modern evolutionary scientist, not even Charles Darwin, EVER said Homo sapience evolved from apes. The theory is - humans share common ancestry with modern apes - two very different statements. Besides the obvious morphological similarities between humans and apes (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons), Modern embryological and gene mapping sciences uphold this theory.

As to why there are still apes; evolution occurs, in part, from gradual environmental stress. Apes are specialized organisms, beautifully adapted to tropical, arboreal environments. Up until recently, they have had no need to for change. Unfortunately, pressures from deforestation and uncontrolled 'bush hunting' has created environmental change too fast for the remaining species of apes to adapt (evolve) to. Thus, there soon may not be apes, which, of courses, changes your whole question.

Answer 4

Evolution is a procedures that may take hundreds of thousands of destiny years to a state the place you will word it. Evolution has been shown in case you probably did somewhat examine into the paintings that has carried out with smaller existence kinds like mice and fruit flys you may have an extremely no longer ordinary time thinking it doesnt. Evolution as a perception does no longer advise one has to end believing in God imo even nonetheless it does make you question various the dogma available in religions. additionally in case you havent observed monkeys and apes in zoos have become further and extra human like in there ability to speak. that could have no longer something to do with genes yet in spite of this its possible evolution is enjoying a roll throughout this by some ability. So your assertion that it has stoped could be totaly off base.

Answer 5

The theory of evolution doesn't say we evolved from apes. It says we share a common ancestor, which isn't around anymore.

But that doesn't mean the old species can't stick around. Dogs are descendants of wolves, who are still around. It is because wolves have stayed in their environment.

Answer 6

And if we did evolve from apes where are the phases between ape and man? Why is there no living proof?

Evolution is only a theory.... As with Creationism you have to believe in it.. it's just another sort of religion...

Answer 7

Same reason you have cats, and tigers and lions. Theyre all in the same family, and evolved from the same, or similar ancestors, but have evolved differently over time. Back in the day, some creatures evolved from apes to more simliar man-like creatures, and eventually to humans, and some of them stayed the same, or evolved into other ways, say into gorillas or chimpanzees!

Answer 8

A gene mutation can happen to one or two in a species, not just to all. It may be that one group of apes wandered off and under different environmental conditions, genes mutated to provide a better fighting chance for their offspring.

Answer 9

we didn't evolve from apes. what evolution says is that our species and the many different primate species may have evolved from a common ancestor. that common ancestor may have been ape-like simply because it was more primitive but it branched off into different species. its like tigers, lions, cheetahs and domesticated cats... they share a common ancestor because of such similar characteristics. probably the saber tooth or similar prehistoric animal.

Answer 10

Because there are some of them still as stupid as you.
Not all species evolve the same way as humans did.