2007-12-23 13:25:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To confuse the Christians.
2007-12-23 13:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Does this count as a drinking question? Well I'm going to drink anyway. I've been wrapping presents all day to celebrate the birth of my Mother-In-Law (seriously she was born on Christmas). Hey now that I think about it.... I totally believe my M-I-L evolved from a shrew...
Merry Xmas
2007-12-23 13:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Those are shrews, not shrew-like ancestors. Questions like this have a 'shroom-like ancestor.
2007-12-23 14:22:28 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some shrews evolved while others didn't. one group of shrews may have lived in the cold and slowly changed while another may have stayed where they were and didn't change because they didn't neeed to.
2007-12-23 13:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by someguy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that there are still people living in Europe, even though America is composed largely of people of European descent. Why pack up and move out of Europe entirely, when there's plenty of space in both continents?
Similarly, why move wholesale out of a perfectly good niche when you could just evolve into many different species to fill all the niches--including the one you started in, which requires no evolutionary change if you want to continue to use it?
2007-12-23 13:39:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure the shrew-like ancestors are all dead.
What's living today are shrews.
2007-12-23 13:29:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You must have met my ex-wife. She was pretty much a common shrew.
2007-12-23 13:31:13 · answer #7 · answered by link955 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not only that, why do I have shrew like in-laws?
2007-12-23 13:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The common ancestor of all modern primates - monkeys, apes and humans - was obviously not a monkey, an ape or a human, but a primitive primate quite different in appearance from any of the modern forms.
2016-04-10 22:30:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What they said. Animals evolve by branching. It is a tree not a ladder. Occasionally some limbs fall off of the tree, (extinction.) But knew limbs branch. They branch out of an older limb that may keep growing itself.
2007-12-23 13:33:42 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋