If humans have evolved from apes, why do apes still exist? (This isn't a religious question btw.)?
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We didn't evolve from chimpanzees or gorillas. Rather, chimpanzees, gorillas AND humans all evolved from some common ancestor. Having a new, superior species evolve does not necessary make the old ones extinct, unless they both fill the same ecological niche in the same area of the world, and humans and chimpanzees don't do that (humans are built for walking upright on the ground, while chimpanzees are much more arboreal). Your argument in no way disproves evolution.
They're next in line if we screw up.
I asked a question like that and got major ripped by the scientific community for being ignorant.
My guess is that it was a different breed of ape that does not exist anymore.
Or maybe it would just go to wipe out the evolution theory and that man came about in a different way.
very good point against evolution!
some evolved and some didn't
All the animal life on earth started from the ocean, but fish still there.
We didn't evolve from apes. we evolved from the same ancestors as apes did.
Scientists don't believe humans evolved from apes, they believe modern apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor.
because we didn't come from apes
modern apes have also evolved from ancient apes.
Because they're the lesser-evolved humans. Even though they're dumb as dirt, they could be the next humans if something we do causes our race to end.
Because the evolutionary tree has branches. Chimpanzee DNA is very close to human DNA. BTW: biologically speaking we are classified as apes, because we ARE apes - we just have the biggest brains. Your question, btw, is not a valid argument against evolution. Study DNA and you will understand why evolution is very real no matter what anybody says.
There are many different types of ape/gorilla/monkey.
The type that we evolved from is just one strand of that genus.
i think..
alternatively, the apes that are around today have evolved from a lower type of ape . maybe back when we were apes, they were all. starfish or something like that..
Great Question! No idea. Some evolved while others choose the life in the Bush Mate. Same as today I suppose. Some races have evolved quicker than other however we are more aware and try and create equality! Do you think they cared then? Not me bro.
i think humans evolved but not from apes,look how the horse has evolved from what it was also,everything changes through time
Man did not descend from apes; man and apes descended from a common primate ancestor.
Another good question to ask is -if we evolved in apes, why does there are some people who look like a horse?
It's weird and not many believe this but I believe apes came from people. We were created as humans, and the environment causes us to grow hair and tougher skin, the evolved ones are the nomads, that hunted a lot and lived in the wilderness. The ones that stayed sheltered from the sun, wind, rain and cold did not evolve as much.
because not all of them had the same mutation that we evolved from. if there were 10 apes in a group, one might mutate and pass the new evolved gene to its offspring, but there are still 9 other apes reproducing without that gene. so only the offspring with that new gene would have been able to pass it along as well, so eventually, half the population or so would have "evolved" while the others just went along on their merry way. same thing with fish/birds. there are millions of types of fish/birds, they have just mutated along the way so that each is specifically designed to do what it does the best, but it doesnt mean that the others would just die, they are just different
I don't know of too many evolutionists that believe or say man evolved from apes. Mostly people who don't believe in evolution say evolutionists say that. What they do say is humans and apes sometime in the distant past had a common ancestor so it makes complete sense that both are still here. The more traits organisms have in common the more closely they are related. We have a lot of traits in common with apes so we are more closely related to them than we are to say, a dog.
that's because some apes were satisfied with old life and were too stubborn to agree to evolve
the first thing our teacher told us when we started learning about evolution was that HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES. rather, apes and humans have a common ancestor. (think of it as a tree trunk that branches out into two separate branches.)but we all evolved into different beings. and while it is true that apes are inferior to humans (because we have bigger brains.), this does not justify your arguement that they SHOULD be extinct merely because of this fact.
Apes have adapted into an evironmental niche that others were slow to adapt to. Humans have evolved to fill a seperate niche which we capitalised on and have dominated. There is now no chance of apes becoming like us, while we are still around. At least that's what I think is the reason.
Mans theory.
just because one animal evolves from another does not mean the old one becomes extinct. one of the basic rules in nature is that 2 species cannot occupy the same niche one will always push out the other, so if a new species occupies another niche both can exist. it is only when they compete can the new species lead to the extinction of the old.
the ape question you ask is popular with relgious people who use it to disprove evolution but following the same logic dogs evolved from wolves but they still exist. in fact all living things evolved from something else and in many cases the old form still exists.
Dude, the same thing ran through my mind the other day. We did not evolve from apes. Thats why apes are still around.
We didn't evolve from apes, we (and extinct hominids) have a common ancestor to living old world apes, Ardipithecus, which went extinct several million years ago. Apes are our "nearest living biological kin".
thats because we didn't evolve. We were created. Thus there must a be a creator.
"Man was made in the image of God" "to have dominion over the animals"
Thus apes were just apes, made separately
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom..
it has to do with the chromosomes and evolution. They just branched off. just because they branched off doesn't mean that they will die off..just become another species.
God i hate you bible bashers
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