Did Humans and Apes have a common ancestor or did they evolve from apes? use the data table?

Question

Hybridization data for human DNA

Human DNA compared to: Number of Matches Unmatched Bases

Chimpanzee DNA 15 5

Gorilla DNA 10 10

Data for common ancestor DNA

Common ancestor DNA compared to: Number of Matches Unmatched Bases

Human DNA 10 10

Chimpanzee DNA 12 8

Gorilla DNA 17 3

use the data table

Answer 1

Evolution is a load of c**p.

Do you like Kool-Aid?

Answer 2

I don't get either of your data sets.  They don't seem consistent with what you would expect but there isn't enough information to understand the question.  

  To answer the question "did they evolve from apes", the answer is yes.  Was the common ancestor of humans, chimps and gorillas an ape, yes.

Answer 3

Neither.

Humans and apes were created different.

There is no evidence that man has evolved form any ape-like creature. Ths is a philosphical idea, not a scientific one.

All hominid fossils are clearly human or clearly ape.

Incidently *all* the hominid fossils ever found would fit on a small table, so few are there. And don't forget the lies and wishful thinking that have plagued the idea of human evolution:

Piltdown man (fake),

Java man ('Java Man' derived from a few teeth, a skull cap and a leg bone found in Indonesia in 1891 and 1892. The leg bone was found 14 metres (45 feet) from the skull cap, but the two were linked together to make the 'missing link'.),

Nebraska Man (a pig's tooth)

Austroloptihecine ( paraded as looking half human even in the Natural History Museum - even though it is known it had ape like hands and feet)

etc

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

Answer 4

The first answer is waaayyy off. NO!!! we did not evolve from apes. We had a common ancestor with them. Not sure what your data table is meant to show...

Answer 5

Look at your common ancestor data and you can see that we branched off from chimpanzees at about 6 million years ago.

Answer 6

The general consensus is that black people evolved from apes in Africa and then white people evolved from black people.

Answer 7

The belief is that yes both apes and humans evolved from a common acncestor. Current best estimates put the split at around 20 million years ago with our common ancestor being Proconsul.

DNA evidence looks at the rate of mutation to assess when the splits would have occurred.

- monkeys and apes split 33-24 million years ago

- gibbons and great apes (including humans) split 22-16 million years ago

- orangutans and african apes split 16-12 million years ago and;

- gorilla's, chimps and humans split around 10-6 million years ago.

Answer 8

We share a common ancestor.