If humans evolved from monkey's/apes, why are they still here?

Question

If humans evolved from monkey's/apes, why are they still here?

Answer 1

thats a really stupid idea that we evolved from them,we have holy spirit of god inside us,god created animals & nature to serve us,we r their master,& god is ours.

Answer 2

Hi there.

There is no such thing as evoution as you are understanding it. What happens is random mutation. If a parent has four children and one has a small mutation, then all four will go on to breed. If the mutation is strong, it will carry on down the line from that one individual, while the other three siblings will breed also. Over time the divergence grows.

So that one mutation fro monkeys becomes apes, another later mutation from apes leads to humans. In the meantime, the majority of the offspring (monkeys in the first instance, apes in the second) continue breeding as before.

The idea that an entire species can change into something more useful is entirely wrong, it all stems from one individual that gets lucky with its mutation. If super-successful, the mutations can outperform and replace the original (as man has done with the apes).

Hope this helps, Steve.

PS all you creationists out there, bad news - God will NOT be limited by your imaginations, he can work his will any way he pleases, so when you deny the truth of his creation you deny the truth of God that is apparent all around you, not just confined to a few badly translated lines in a book.

Answer 3

This is a common argument used by creationists, as mentioned by many people above, men and apes have a common ancestor, they evolved one way, we evolved another. However, it does not mean that species cannot evolve and still exist, if a population of a species is split either by design or natural events - over time they will evolve to fir their own habitat and will given time become two different species , one may be identical to the original but the other may be radically different . e.g Darwin's finches on teh Galpagos islands

Answer 4

We have not evolved from apes, however apes and humans have a common ancestor.



Chimpanzees are our closest relatives. Genetic studies show humans and chimpanzees shared a common ancestor that lived in the African rainforest 7-8 million years ago. The descendants of this common ancestor split into two lineages -one that led to chimps and another that led to us.



It is thought that the human lineage developed routine bipedalism as a strategy for living on the ground when climate change decimated the forest, leaving wide belts of open terrain with no trees.

Answer 5

You are making an athropomorhic mistake. You assume that we are better off than our cousins in trees.



1. Apes do not envy us our 10 hr. work day that ends in running to the grocery store to settle for food that someone else has foraged.

2. Intelligence is a two edged sword that comes with the promise of future expansion and the threat of total anhilation.

3. Peaceful huter gatherer lifestyle is an equal not lesser, path to evolve along.



In general Chimps, though containing more than 98% similar DNA, are adapted to life in the trees and good at it.



Our anscestors took to the plains and had to deal with more formidible predators. So we stand upright to see lions over the plains grasses. We develop tools to fight off predators and become predators ourselves. With the same DNA as Chimp we decided to take the way of the sword. It may be a case of dead end evolution for us.



SO just like the Finches with long beaks and the Finches with short beaks

1. we do not impinge on each others habitat.

2. We are both well suited for our habitat and not under severe evolutionary pressure.

3. We don't compete for the same resources.



We can live together and evolve along different lines happily.

Answer 6

Saying humans evolved from monkey's/apes is equivalent to saying you came from your cousin. You and your cousin have a common ancestor, a grandmother or grandfather. Now, keep tracing this line back wards. You will find that you are related to people that are still here! WOW! They didn't just disappear from existence. By your explanation of evolution, you should not have any cousins, aunts or uncles.



I know the scientist are probably pulling their hair out from this very simple explanation but I used to teach jr. high science and all things are better explained from the learners point of view.

Answer 7

I think I can explain with an example of evolution on the Galapagos islands. This is a true story but the names have been changes to keep it simple. A lizard gets washed ashore on a island with caves on it. The lizard came from a nearby island without caves. Over time some of the new lizards start living in the caves while their brothers keep living outside. Living in the caves is very nice and there are no predators in the caves so the lizards who spend less energy to develop camouflage have more to do the wild thing and so over time there is more of the lizards how don't waste energy on things they don't need in the caves and use more to develop the things the do need like good sensitivity to the buzzing of bugs who have lost their way and are about to be lizard food. After a real long time you have blind white lizards with very little scales to slow them down, who are the decedents of the big green armored jobs living outside on the same island. Make sense. Both adaptions can continue to exist even if they diverge as long as environs exist which allow then to live. There was always room for both versions of monkey to exist on this planet which is why humans still have something to put in the zoo.

Answer 8

If humans did in fact evolve from monkies, they are here simply because they had no need to evolve. Evolution is both random and on a need basis. Say for example you have two island. The islands contain identical monkies. The islands thems however differ greatly. On one island food is plentiful, fruits, nuts, berries. On this island there is no need to learn, no need to try to get other forms of food because its all right there. On the other island however...there is less food. These monkies would be forced to learn somthing..be it how to use a rock to smash a clam shell, how to use sticks to fish. The monkies who do not learn this..starve and die..and thus the monkies evolve. As their situation changed they are more capable to change with their enviroment and continue to evolve. While the monkies with a continual food supply..simply exist. And thus is the theory of evolution...in my view :)

Answer 9

Humans did not evolve from monkeys or apes and that is why those animals are still here!

Answer 10

How many times can people log on here, type this question in and take themselves seriously. I think the should feel lucky that those of us who are educated have EVOLVED to have patience.



FOR THE one MILLIONTH TIME. WE didn't evolve from the modern APE! The modern APE shares a common ancestor with us.

Answer 11

Common Ancestor

Answer 12

Humans and current day apes evolved from the same ancestral form. Both species survived because they adapted to live in their respective environments.

Answer 13

humans did not evolve from monkeys or apes, but we have a COMMON ANCESTOR who looked more like monkeys or apes than like us.



monkeys and apes stopped changing look after a while but humans continues to lose hair and to straighten their backs to become like we are today.

Answer 14

They are here for the bananas.



Seriously, why do people continue to think that is some kind of deep problematic flaw with evolution. Go read "The Origin of Species" as a basic first assignment before you even consider trying to argue against evolution.

Answer 15

This question has been answered dozens of times. Why did you not look for the previous answers instead of exposing yourself to ridicule?



Every counter-evolution question or statement made by witless creationists has been answered dozens, hundreds or thousands of times over the past several decades. It is apparent that the creationists are usually too stupid to recognise that they have been full-answered, or so dishonest that they pretend that the answer does not exist. If you got this question from your pastor, he is a liar or he is stupid. There is no middle ground.



Or are you just stirring the pot?

Answer 16

Hi,you sure have got some people going.I do believe we evolved from chimpanzee's.Why do scientists keep experimenting on them its barbaric because they are our closest relative.Some people have different theories mostly none of us really know that's why there is a God for people to believe in.I think he was invented to keep people under control.

Answer 17

I do not see many monkeys or apes in my apartment community. Apes do not see many humans in their jungles.

Answer 18

We didn't evolve from them, we evolved alongside them and share a common ancestor.

Answer 19

This question has been asked so many times it becomes tiresome to answer. Get a life.

Answer 20

what makes you think humans evolved from monkeys .

really , my ancestor was not a monkey ,that for sure !!



if humans did evolve from monkeys then how come humans don't evolve from monkeys now .

Answer 21

Because although it sounds like a good explanation it's still a theory. No one has lived long enough to actually watch the evolution of any species, and there are still missing parts to the puzzle. Theorys always have holes in them.

Answer 22

I think thats a poor theory.. its accepted, though, by lots of people as it was hard for people to denounce the geocentrism in the middle age... in this universe everything is calculated, no way for luck.. well, thats at least my opinion!



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Answer 23

Thats not a fair question for the evolutionist

Answer 24

not monkeys.. i think the 1st "monkeys/people" were called cromagnum

Answer 25

humans are the perfection,is anything up than the perfection?????

it`s like windows 95 to windows 98 to 2000 to me to wndows xp to windows vista to......

so the humans are geting every year better than before are evoluating every day.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 26

Big flaw in the theory huh?

They die! Not evolve.