Do you believe that humans evolved from apes?

Question

If you do, tell me, shouldn't there be apes walking around and shouldn't we have at least one ape in our family and shouldn't the apes that you see at the zoos becoming more human like and shouldn't apes be able to talk to us?

Why did Charles Darwin say that? I certainly dont believe that.

Why are scientists even testing the apes/ monkeys on their IQ??

Ok world, I'm sorry that I said that Darwin did say we were from apes. Happy?

I just had the wrong words here, and besides I should be in bed not up on the computer, when I posted this question it was 4am.

Answer 1

Yes, I believe that apes and humans descend from the same ancestor (not quite what you wrote).

Apes are walking around, gorillas, chimpanzees, etc... Genetically they are our far cousins, not our brothers.

The Human branch did have other Human breeds than ours, the last one died out with the last Neanderthal, leaving only our Homo sapiens sapiens on Earth. That's called extinction of species. They went the way of the woolly mammoth and the saber tooth tiger.

Evolution happens over a loooonnng period, not in the 8000 years or so of known Human history. That's only the blink of an eye in evolution term, not even enough for us to lose our worthless wisdom teeth (we have a too narrow jaw for the full set of teeth we got from our ancestors). That's why we can't see the evolutionary change in a species.
As well, apes are evolving in a different way from us, so why should they become more intelligent? We developed intelligence over muscles to survive, they are strong enough to survive without the need of more brain (At least when we are not shooting them to extinction). Just as they never needed to develop a more complex language than the one they have.

Darwin put down the basis of the evolution theory. He did not say we descended from apes.

Scientists are testing the apes/monkeys IQ because they are trying to determine what determines intelligence and what is the difference between our cousins and us and if they can theorise how our species became so intelligent. They are also testing the IQ of dolphins, cats, dogs, horses and other beasts.

Answer 2

Charles Darwin didn't say that humans evovled from apes. I don't know who told you that he said it, but they are either very uninformed or very dishonest.

He said that humans and apes probably decended from a common ancestor. He didn't specify what the ancestor was, but many experts in the field agree it was probably a small primate similar to a modern shrew.

If you don't believe in evolution, tell me where the swine flu comes from? Why is avian flu more of a threat now than it was 20 years ago? Or why some pathogens (bacteria, virus, etc.,) are now drug resistent when they were not 30 years ago. Explain how, if evolution doesn't happen, humans have managed animals by selecting for specific traits? There was a time in history when no one had ever heard of a Boston Terrier dog. The breed didn't exist until someone crossed an English terrier with a bull dog. That IS evoloution. When humans manage the evolution of a species, it is also called animal husbandry, and we've been doing it as a species for thousands of years.

Darwin didn't explain all the details of evolution. He proposed it as a theory to explain why some birds have one kind of bill and other birds of the same general type have a different sort of bill, among other things.

Scientists are testing the IQ of all sorts of animals in an effort to understand how they work. Much basic research is done to answer simple questions about function and purpose. Some is done to better understand humans.

Answer 3

We are not descended from apes, Darwin never said that. Humans and apes are descended from a lemur type creature which is now extinct. Or god made everything the way it is now and put the dinasaur bones in the ground as a joke. And all the chinese history that is older than 5000 years is a lie. And woolly mammoths packed in glacier ice that is ten thousand years old is a really funny joke that god is playing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

Please read more and work on an opinion, science and religion do not have to disagree.

http://www.torahscience.org/natsci/index.html

Answer 4

No, humans didn't evolve from apes. Humans and apes evolved from the same root species. It's a virtual certainty, based on all the scientific data gathered from the dawn of time. There was a species - a root species - and the mutations that occurred (all evolution is spawned by mutation of one kind or another) resulted in different traits. Some of those offspring were slightly more human; others slightly more apelike. As generation after generation were born, over hundreds of thousands or millions of years, those differences became greater, until they were no longer recognizable as coming from the same root species.

Answer 5

First of all, Darwin did not say we evolved from apes. He established the groundwork that became the scientific basis for evolutionary theory - and a scientific theory is not just a guess or a hunch, but an established set of facts.

Humans, in fact, are apes. Unusually intelligent and industrious apes, but still apes.

We investigate the intelligence of non-human apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas because understanding that enhances our studies of human intelligence.

Answer 6

Evolution is mankind's feeble attempt and excuse for denying the capacity and life of God. Mankind is barely 6000 years previous and all the human race has come from Adam & Eve, whom God created interior the backyard of Eden. All this different stuff approximately fossils and prehistoric guy are relics from a pre-adamite international that existed before Adam, yet grow to be destroyed whilst God cursed the earth and forged devil out of heaven right down to earth. Their is not any hyperlink between the two existences. God re-made the international (it rather is the Genesis account) and then made guy in His (God's) very own image. the different upright creatures before could have resembled mankind in that they've been primates. yet they weren't "in a lifeless ringer for God": That explains the dinosaurs and all those different fossils and strains of a pre-Adamic international. yet what has existed using fact the re-advent and fix of the international, which certainly IS thousands and thousands or billions of years previous. yet mankind and the present present lifeforms have not developed from something, yet have been created and located in this earth AS they are actually whilst God did the 6 literal day advent, 6000 years in the past. guy nevertheless looks like he did whilst he grow to be created,(in a lifeless ringer for God) and apes nevertheless look like what they did whilst God made them; they are nevertheless apes. If apes developed into guy, why are there nevertheless apes?

Answer 7

No, nobody has ever said that except ignorant religious fundementalists who misquote Darwin.
His theory is that men and apes EVOLVED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR.
This is quite a different proposition.
Apes and men share 99% of their DNA so it is not impossible.

Answer 8

No and there is no proof of it. If they had there would be evidence of creatures that were in between and there isn't. Most scientist do not believe in evolution because it is genetically impossible but the secularist who want God out still push this baloney