You're misinterpreting Evolutionary theory. It's not that we evolved from Apes. What happens is that at some point a species forms reproductive groups which eventually become so different from each other that they are no longer the same species.
Chimpanzees are our closest biological relative, but it's not that chimps evolved into humans. Evolution never stops, chimps have been evolving on their own as long as we have. But somewhere, way back in time we were both a single species that divided and differentiated. In Human evolution a big aspect of this was Bipedalism (walking on two legs) which freed the use of the hands.
Chimps evolved separate characteristics, such as being better suited for climbing and living in an arboreal habitat.
Read Glen Conroy's 'Reconstructing Human Origins' if you want a more detailed explanation.
Hope that helps.
2007-11-15 13:01:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Primates are mammals that incorporate lemurs, monkeys, apes and people. The Strepsirrhini, or “moist-nosed” primates, which incorporate lemurs and lorises, branched off around sixty 3 million years in the past. previous international monkeys and apes divided from New international monkeys approximately forty million years in the past. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probable resembles the difficulty-loose ancestor of recent international monkeys and apes, lived approximately 29 million years in the past. The apes split from previous international monkeys approximately 25 million years in the past. people and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years in the past. Of the macaque's just about 3 billion DNA base pairs, ninety 3.5 according to cent are comparable to those interior the human genome. it is not unpredicted for a species whose lineage diverged from our own approximately 25 million years in the past. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged only 6 million years in the past, are approximately ninety 8 according to cent comparable. One complicated discovery is that a number of mutations that reason genetic ailments in people - at the same time with phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which bring about psychological retardation - are the traditional style in macaques and, possibly, our own ancestors. So on each and every split the unique have been given left in the back of to stay because it exchange into! i'm specific that lots of the "left in the back of" species are completely satisfied as they're and that there are a stable many people that would not innovations procuring and advertising places with them!!! Evolution is now frequent around the board with anti evolitionists being seen as crackpots and undesirable thinkers!! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of england and mainstream church homes all settle for evolution and the massive bang!! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury placed it ok – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist physique of innovations to scripture, ignoring scholarship and severe studying, and complicated diverse understandings of reality”!!
2016-10-16 21:46:45
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answered by ? 4
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And evolved from does not mean that the descendants necessarily destroyed the predecessors or completely replaced them Dog evolved from wolves and coyotes, etc., but there are still wild dogs around because they occupy a different niche in nature. On Darwin's islands, the Galapagos's, there have evolved many different kinds of finches to eat different kinds of food, yet that does not wipe out those that live on the original foods.
"Survival of the fittest" is about the forces of change and not a rule of a zero sum game as too many people treat it.
2007-11-15 15:40:46
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answered by Mike1942f 7
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lizards are pre-historic, so many animals are residuals of such early ancestors
2007-11-15 14:09:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Your question is asked every week. Check tons of answers already given.
2007-11-15 13:24:28
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answered by Fromafar 6
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