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pls. say if you are in the positive side or you are in negative side/ against the theory...thank you...

2007-12-09 23:07:20 · 15 answers · asked by -vErLy-LiCiOuS B 1 in Social Science Anthropology

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Humans did not evolve from apes. Humans and apes SHARE a COMMON DISTANT ANCESTOR. . Comparisons of DNA show that our closest living relatives are the ape species of Africa, and most studies by geneticists show that chimpanzees and humans are more closely related to each other than either is to gorillas. However, it must be stressed that humans did not evolve from living chimpanzees. Rather, our species and chimpanzees are both the descendants of a common ancestor that was distinct from other African apes. This common ancestor is thought to have existed in the Pliocene between 5 and 8 million years ago, based on the estimated rates of genetic change. Both of our species have since undergone 5 to 8 million years of evolution after this split of the two lineages. Using the fossil record, scientists attempt to reconstruct the evolution from this common ancestor through the series of early human species to today's modern human species.

2007-12-10 16:10:23 · answer #1 · answered by lightningelemental 6 · 5 0

Darwin's theory, more commonly known as the theory of evolution, has changed quite a bit over the years. There are bits that were shown to be completely wrong, and there are whole fields that needed to be added on, like genetics. So it goes with science: theories need to be fine-tuned. Most of the major stuff is pretty well dealt with. The things that scientists are still arguing over are outside of the realm of what you'd learn about in high school biology.

Humans evolved from an earlier ancestor, which gave rise to the other apes (we're still apes here). It's like great-grandpa Joe is the ancestor of you and your cousins. The other apes are our cousins. Monkeys are also cousins, but from an ancestor who's further back (great-great grandma Sue, maybe). This fits in with the theory of evolution, which says that populations change over time, due to genetic drift or environmental selection pressures. We've got a (patchy, but still useful) fossil record, along with genetic studies that show how closely related we are to chimps, gorillas, and so on, and more traditional taxonomic methods that all bolster this theory of human development. Changes are made as new evidence comes in (we may be more or less related to chimps than we thought, h. erectus and h. habilis were found to live at the same time), but the fundamental principles haven't been really challenged in a long time. Evolution is one of the strongest theories we've got in science. We know more about how it works than we know about gravity. It's the thing that makes biology make sense- without it, biology's little more than a bunch of data from which you can make no useful predictions. Creationists would have more leeway, scientifically, if they went after the concept of a heliocentric solar system.

2007-12-10 02:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by random6x7 6 · 5 1

you're able to now no longer understand this yet many researchers have contributed already to thought of evolution. it is very prevalent by way of utilising the medical community for the period of the fact it is verifiable and repeatable - independently. explanation why we attempt drugs on animals is thru thought of evolution. one million. whilst we grew to grow to be self-conscious and waiting to bypass ideas by way of generations. 2. to proceed to exist. 3. there became no energetic motivation to grow to be some thing else. We adapt to proceed to exist. 4. the placement did they get their concept from? If a community is unstable, you progression or create some thing to furnish your self with safety. that's straightforward instincts. 5. Why might desire to they? what's the convenience? Termites have created habitats that makes use of passive cooling... bats have a sort of altruism... why is it that we those animals grow to be like us? that's like asking, why do no longer human beings evolve the flexibility to make useful extra useful of the electromagnetic spectrum like birds... 6. you have rather an thought with regards to the ideas of animals huh? 7. Apes are definitely rather smart. They hire kit and what now no longer. Why do you shop insisting that evolution's end purpose is to be in process human beings??? Evolution could no longer care lots much less approximately us.. it incredibly is a non-smart rigidity that creates variety. 8. it incredibly is a commerce off. subsequently we stepped forward the relatives shape of two human beings - one to guard the little one and different to guard the carer. Tigers might have extra useful useful claws yet we could make sharper kit. 9. useful. Ring species is composed of ideas.

2016-11-14 07:11:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We are apes - the great apes, or Hominids, consist of humans, gorrilas, chimanzees, and orangutans. Because we are of the same biological family we therefore share a common ancestor, also of the great ape variety and spawning several other varieties now extinct. Only a matter of time before the rest (including us) are extinct as well, and I would propose that rather than fighting over this issue we educate ourselves and prepare for the future.

2007-12-10 15:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

We absolutely evolved from apes. That is not the theoretical part of evolution, it's a fact. The reason it's a fact is how we define apes. We know we evolved and we have labeled ourselves and our ancestors apes. Therefore we evolved from apes.

2007-12-10 10:34:30 · answer #5 · answered by High Tide 3 · 2 0

Yes, humans evolved from apes. Keep in mind that we are not saying that humans evolved from modern apes--we share the same ancestors.

About 7 million years ago, a population of apes were split into two as a result of the opening of the Great Rift in East Africa. One population was in an area that stayed forested, and evolved into modern chimpanzees.

The other population found itself in an are that became savanna and evolved into hominids, the group from which humans evolved. Hominids are apes adapted to living in open savanna or broken woodlands, as opposed to all other apes, which live in forest/jungle.

As a result, hominids:
Locomoted bipedally
Had relatively larger, teeth, with thicker enamel, in order to eat the harder foods in the open environment.

The hominids radiated in to several species. One group of hominids started scavenging meat, and using tools to a greater extent than the others, and this is the group that led to humans.

(Please note that this is a very abbreviated account).

wl

2007-12-10 04:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 5 1

All scientific evidence supports evolution & absolutely none exists to support creation. Therefore, being a well educated & pragmatic man, I'm a supporter of evolution.
Not only do all recovered primate fossiles support evolution, but DNA confirms evolution to be fact. Homo sapien chromosome #2 is very nearly an exact copy of 2 fused chimp chromosomes. I could give you a detailed account of how the primate line evolved from prosimians, monkeys, then the great ape line (consisting of bipedal & quadrapedal apes), and evolution of the Hominid line, but I suspect you are aware of this.
To ignore evolution would be to flatly reject fact and very compelling evidence in preferance to myth & superstition.

2007-12-09 23:29:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6 1

If I have said it once, I've said it 100 times:

MAN DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES.

MAN AND APE EVOLVED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR, as did man and shrew, or man and dinosaur.

Go back far enough and Man and Amoeba have a common ancestor!

Think of life as a tree with each species branching off into 2+ paths just as the tree's branch does.

2007-12-10 06:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by jared_e42 5 · 3 1

I am not in the negative or positive side but I have a good explaination for that. There is no proof if the theory is correct, its just a coincidence that human genes are similar to that of the apes. But we can't argue that much since that is a good concept of our origins.

2007-12-10 01:24:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

Scientific evidence shows that man evolved frm ape, the bible is based on no evidence, just wistfull thinking of people who look for answers and are gullible enough to believe them.

2007-12-09 23:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by Lilly 3 · 7 0

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