How many times do I have to explain it? The sister group of the apes is the Old World monkeys. The apes have evolutionary novelties that distinguish them from the monkeys, but there are no evolutionary novelties that distinguish monkeys from apes. Monkeys are a paraphyletic group. The apes (ourselves included) came from monkeys.
All together now:
The nearest common ancestor of humans and apes was an ape.
The nearest common ancestor of humans, apes, and monkeys was a monkey.
The nearest common ancestor of humans, apes, monkeys, and fish was a fish.
Got it?
A third-generation freethinker
2007-11-28 10:13:24 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sounds like a fishy question if you ask me.
2007-11-28 23:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
D N A proves diff its not 100% the same and it would be if we were like you say . Now tell us when the last ape or monkey had a human baby , and when the last women had a throw back to a monkey or ape or even a fish
2007-11-28 18:40:13 · answer #2 · answered by the only 1 hobo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that apes and monkeys split from their common ancestor some 25 million years ago. Are you saying that the ape/monkey common ancestor was an Old World Monkey?
2007-11-28 18:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by Future 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The common ancestor to the monkeys and apes lacked forward facing eyes, a defining feature of monkeys. Therefore, the common ancestor was not a monkey. I appreciate what you are saying (and I concur on ape and fish), but must disagree.
2007-11-28 18:45:36 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, many now believe that an ape species called dryopithecus is the ancestor of all current primates, apes and monkeys. So monkeys evolved from apes, not the other way around.
2007-11-28 18:21:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Christians will ever stop saying that, because
we don't believe we ever came from monkeys or apes. You
probably act like a monkey so you go ahead and say you
evolved from an ape,.......but not me. God created the world
and everything in it (monkeys are still monkeys, and apes
are still apes). To learn a bit more about evolution, I have a
nice web site for you to go to which will explain evolution
to you.
2007-11-28 18:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All together now: We didn't come from monkeys. The ape may be your nearest common ancestor but he is no ancestor of mine. That little bit of difference in DNA means a whole lot.
2007-11-28 18:20:36 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
OK, but most people don't understand it like you do.
They really think it was monkey-> person.
Plus, you left out hominids. It isn't monkey then person. WE actually didn't come from monkeys. We came from hominids, etc...
Your argument is like having me say that I am from England because somewhere in my past I had ancestors there. It is too general and it allows for the uneducated to create interesting misunderstandings.
2007-11-28 18:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by The J Man 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well if your right, then why do we have apes here on earth? Wouldn't they have all evolved into humans by now? Memphis Zoo has had the same Ape for 27 years, ya woulda thunk that thing woulda morphed by now!!
2007-11-28 18:19:19 · answer #9 · answered by TiaRanita 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where did the monkey come from?
2007-11-28 18:24:31 · answer #10 · answered by stinky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL Dutchess' answer!!!
I never claimed to be a human. I like being a monkey.
2007-11-28 18:16:51 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋