Why haven't ALL of the monkies 'evolved' *cough cough* to become humans?
Evolution - the LOL Theory!
2007-11-16 13:54:16 · 9 answers · asked by Je Marche Drôle 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
First off all, humans haven't evolved from monkeys. We share a common ancestor, a recent one, who was neither a human nor a monkey but very similar to both.
Anyway, you are assuming some sort of linear evolutionary path, i.e. everything evolves into a human, and so everything that ISN'T a human is "lesser evolved" and needs to become human. This view is incorrect. A more correct view would be a tree or a bush, where the trunk splits into many, many branches. Our common ancestor that we share with monkeys would be a branching point, and monkeys and humans are separate branches.
Therefore, humans do not come from monkeys, and monkeys will not turn into humans. A monkey is a fully evolved monkey, and a human is a fully evolved human.
2007-11-16 14:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by friendlyfirex3 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
They evolved into humans, but some of them became extinct while they were evolving. The rest evolved into the modenr day monkeys that live on.
2007-11-16 19:41:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One logical explanation is that there are hundreds of different monkeys. One particular type may have developed in a certain part of the world where a higher level of intellect was necessary to survive.
A species must learn to adapt to it's environments.
2007-11-16 14:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's because Peter Tork, Mickey Dolnez, and Davy Jones won't go away. Oh, wait a minute, that's spelled Monkees.
2007-11-16 15:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sigh. The plural form of "monkey" is "monkeys," not "monkies."
Looks as if you still haven't evolved, you pea brain.
2007-11-16 14:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by Frank 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Who said that?
People take little bits of something and give it a life of it's own.
Stop with the monkeys. If you're talking about Darwinism.....read all of it.
2007-11-16 14:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they said that humans came from monkies. i think it's more accurately that humans and monkies came from a common ancestor.
2007-11-16 13:58:34 · answer #7 · answered by tuerving 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because we didn't come from monkey's!!
2007-11-16 13:58:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
evolution is just another piece of s@#!
2007-11-16 14:00:04 · answer #9 · answered by onetreehunny 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋