Are humans same as apes?

Question

I’m lay in biology; but I know apes have 48 chromosomes, humans have them 46; after second and third ape chromosome pairs had united a single person of new species appeared with all human features (bipedalism and all); lucky mutations are very rare; how could Adam find an Eva among apes? What could be a scenario? Let us put divine digit aside;

Answer 1

Humans are biologically apes.  Apes are a group of primates that have certain characteristics.  We evolved from bipedal apes.  5 million years is a long time since we shared a common ancestor with chimps.  If you went back a couple of million years, all you would see is bipedal apes.  It is the same way now but most people have a hard time recognizing themselves as apes.

Answer 2

we share 96% of the same genes as apes.

something to think about, if you don't already know.

Answer 3

Well if u look at it this way....as the generation progresses we tend to have more developed brains and thus more intelligence. The natural phenomenon of evolution and mutation took part due to the climatic changes as per the developing changes in mother Earth, like how we have cancerous cells in our bodies the same way by the stroke of some insignificant copulation between the chromosomes must have produced one such chimpanzee transform into an accidental human who had better thot process and thus he or she cud identify the same similarities between themselves....so for eg. Adam came in a bit later then Eve by a couple of yrs and when he saw Eve he instinctively knew there was something different from the rest of the chimpz he saw, he went to Eve for her help and in the end helped each other so much that the whole of earth started to explode with human beings, thats when the nature realised that it had created some disease uncurable in the form of human beings lol now we still can't find how to control our producing capacity. Since u've said divine light be kept aside i'm not touching it coz its will be the only best explanation apart from wat i've just given lol.

Mmmm i'd say Humans are the refined outcome of apes, but no two things are the same. If so then why do we still have chimpanzee and apes etc...just a reminder perhaps that a mistake comitted by the chromosomes develops such a creativity like that of HUMANS ;-)

Answer 4

".kaksi"

I wonder if biology 101 can be described as being..."in biology"?

You speak of biology and then you speak of eve as if both existed.

Confused, are we?

Answer 5

Evolutionists mistakenly believe that similarities mean the two living things have the same ancestor. The more similarities, the closer the link. Study microbiology for awhile and you will find that even the slightest of differences mean a LOT of changes in the genetic makeup.

How is this for logic:

All dog have one tail, four legs, and two eyes.

all iguanas have one tail, four legs, and two eyes.

Therefore, dogs are similar to iguanas.

You don't have to be a biologist to know there are more differences between dogs and iguanas than similarities.

Answer 6

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no.  The whole evoluteion thing is just a theory.  (yes, yes, I know, so is creationism) But that at least makes sense.  And faith stands way above assuming. Crack open the bible

Answer 7

if youre  going to  put divinity  aside  then  you  have  to  at least make  adam and  eve  the  same  species. and  those  lucky  mutations  didnt  happen  over night.  they  happend  over hundreds of  thousands  of  years.

apes  didnt  just  make  a sudden  decision to  walk erect.

read  desmond  morris' "the  naked  ape" and  it  will  gaive  you a good  basis  for  further study

Apparently,  we  are genetically closer to  the  chimpanzee than  the  indian  elephant is  to  the  african  elephant.

Answer 8

Yes, and we're also the same as lizard and reptiles, birds and fish! Just look at the stages of the embryo! We all go through it before birth! The three differing parts of the brain are still vestiges of when we were primitive creatures! When you die the first part to go will be the neo-cortex and you will revert back down the scale to something more primitive!

Answer 9

We are a different species than apes, but fall under the same biological family.

The great apes are the members of the family Hominidae which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

Answer 10

Sorry, you're a bit confused.

Ape isn't a species; there are a number of species that are apes -- we are one of them. (sort of like 'cat' -- there are a lot of different species of cat)

There's a book that explains what you're asking: Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

It's not that suddenly there was an Adam among the apes; it's a slow process of species differentiation. But it's complicated -- too complicated to explain here.

Here are a couple of websites for you (but the specific answer to your question is explain in the book I mentioned):

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

Answer 11

the point is, humans dont have hair on our face and apes and humans and can't mate,

so no we aren't the same.

Answer 12

It's possible for members of the same species with an odd number of chromosomes to reproduce. Downs syndrome girls are fertile, as an example. It would have caused some problems in the population for a few generations until the number stabilised at 46 for all, but it wouldn't have been impossible, as you seem to suggest.

Also, you've assumed all these changes appeared spontaneously in one generation. No evolutionary theorist claims that at all. What have you beeen reading? The fusion of the two chromosomes probably occurred in an individual halfway between chimp and the Homo genus. All the other changes were gradual and over many generations. The first  '46 chromosome'  person would have looked just like everyone else around at the time with 48 pairs.

There are plenty of humans walking around right now with an odd number of chromosomes. Other than Down's syndrome kids you wouldn't notice anything different about most of them.

I'd also like to point out that we are 98.6% the same as Bonobo chimps, and our Y chromosome shows shared descent. The 'theory' of evolution is about as solid as the 'theory' of gravity, ie, all known facts support it.

Answer 13

Humans, along with chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, are actually members of the ape family...The Great Apes!