Darwin's theory that humans evolved from apes...then where did apes evolve from?

Question

Good call Wild Ape!

Answer 1

Yahoo Answers.

Answer 2

I believe at one time the ancestors of human beings, apes, monkeys, etc. were believed to be descended from an insect eating shrew-like creature that lived in trees.

Answer 3

Someone answered the question correctly.  The theory is that we are all descended from a common ancestor, so there is your final answer.

According to the theory.

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Dr. Zaius says that this is a myth.  The Law Giver created ape in his own image----however mankind might have been his only mistake.

Answer 5

"Lesser" mammals.  

I don't know if they've been able to put all the pieces together yet, but DNA analysis is really helping to shed light on the relationship between various flora and fauna.

Yes, we started out as single cell organisms, floating around in the oceans.  The many steps that led from that to multi-cellular sea creatures, amphibians, birds, mammals, and so on probably have a lot of gaps in them.

Creationists would tell you that's evidence that we were made by God and not the product of evolution, but that's flawed logic.

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From Tadpoles.

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The theory is not that humans evolved from apes.  The theory is that we all evolved from a common ancestor, and because of different factors in the environment, certain characteristics were better than others.  Ever hear "survival of the fittest"?  What that means is that people, animals, bacteria, anything will reproduce and perhaps have offspring that has a slightly different trait than the rest (for example, an ape-like creature that walks upright without dragging its arms on the ground).  If those traits help in the environment (to survive) then that creature will go on to reproduce and create more upright-walking creatures and the other creatures with less desirable traits will die off.  So with that happening for millions of years, different traits were kept, the creatures divided up based on some of those traits, and different species came about.

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Humans evolved from an ape form that no longer exists.  -Following that back far enough you get to the ancestors of all modern apes .  Examples of early apes are Oreopithecus - even earlier there are transitional Monkey to Ape forms such as Proconsul.  Even earlier than that are early monkey forms such as Aegyptopithecus.... and so on.

Answer 9

All organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor or ancestral gene pool. Current species are a stage in the process of evolution, with their diversity the product of a long series of speciation and extinction events. The common descent of organisms was first deduced from four simple facts about organisms: First, they have geographic distributions that cannot be explained by local adaptation. Second, the diversity of life is not a set of completely unique organisms, but organisms that share morphological similarities. Third, vestigial traits with no clear purpose resemble functional ancestral traits, and finally, that organisms can be classified using these similarities into a hierarchy of nested groups