Did We Evolve from Apes? and if yes how?

Question

Did We Evolve from Apes? and if yes how?

Answer 1

No, we did not evolve from apes. But apes and humans evolved concurrently. There have been many varieties of apes or monkeys formed. So have there been several types of man - Neanderthal in particular to be compared with ourselves, homo sapiens. That means knowledgeable man.

But if we had evolved from apes, it would have been on account of natural selection during our evolution.

Please do not blindly follow those who would preach that everything happened due to creationism. the bible was written by Hebrew slaves in exile and slavery. It was not until the wonderful discoveries of Darwin that evolution came to be understood by men. If you want to believe in a god, then at least believe in one that gives you something in return, knowledge, wisdom, the capacity to think for yourself. Don't be mired down with the ignorance of a religion that is the shame of the U.S.A.

Answer 2

No.  Apes and humans have a common ancestor.  

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfb100/evolutio...

http://www.becominghuman.org/

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/

http://www.humboldt.edu/~mrc1/main.shtml

Answer 3

No.  Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor that is now extinct.  The mechanism is by mutations and natural selection.  Selection pressure due to local environments also played its role.  There is no question about this.  Religious answers to this long answered question are silly.

Answer 4

We evolved alongside the other primates, not from them. we share a common ancestor. Take it back a bit further and everything on land evolved from the first creature to leave the water. Creationists seize on the ape thing in order to offend you sensitivities, their theory is that you won't like the idea of being related to a chimp. Frankly I would rather be a chimp than a member of the Westboro Baptist Church but that's another story.

Anyway according to the most up to date theories that I have heard, the one thing which made the jump possible was the consumption of meat. This extra protein boost was what made us develop bigger brains and move on to where we are now.

Personally I can't think of a better creature to be related to anyway, the great apes are wonderful.

Answer 5

Absolutely not.

People should question their science teachers a little more closely.

The idea that man evolved from an ape is completely false, and is

laughable.

It is not supported by any evidence whatsoever.

All hominid fossils are clearly human or clearly ape.

Evolution requires the creation of new genetic information. The proposed mechanism is mutations, yet all observed mutations are information neutral or lossy.

All hominid fossils are clearly ape or clearly human. History is full of frauds and over-enthusiastic claims of anthropologists

Man was created as man. We are very different to all apes/monkeys and there is no evidence that we evolved at all.

The evidence does not support he idea that we are evolved from an ape. All hominid fossils are clearly human or clearly ape.

History is full of frauds and wishful thinking in regard to alleged missing links:

Piltdown man – fraud

Java man - a few teeth, and a few skull and bone fragments

Nebraska man - a pigs tooth

Australopithecene (Lucy) - portrayed with human like hands and feet despite the fact that it is known to have ape like hands and feet, and to have been a knuckle walker.

Sometimes people are surprised to realise that *All* the hominid fossils ever found would fit on a small table.

To believe we evolved from an ape requires an awful lot of faith! It flies in the face of the evidence, and of scientific knowledge.

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

Answer 6

Yes. There is fossilised evidence to show the evolution . They have been carbon dated and proven to be in sequence

Answer 7

No - but we and apes evolved from a common ancestor - as so many others have correctly asserted.

It always astonishes me that some people will take a book written thousands of years ago (Genesis) as the last word in scientific knowledge.  That book tells us mankind's understanding of the natural world, and where it came from, at that time, and expresses all that in story form.  It was never meant as a scientific textbook.

Answer 8

We and the other apes evolved from a common ancestor in the same way that any form of life evolves. Tiny mutations occur in the genetic make up of an organism all the time. If the mutation is beneficial it will survive and be passed on when the animal reproduces. Over a long period of time, these mutations lead to the formation of a different species.

Answer 9

No. A common ancestor once existed between humans and apes. Not the same thing as us evolving from apes.

The first hominid we know about is Australopithecus afarensis. If you're interested in this stuff, start from there.

Answer 10

Where did these apes come from?   Can science think up a story for that?

Answer 11

Evolution, plain and simple.

Answer 12

Humans and apes evolved from common ancestors. They're cousins, not parent and child.

Answer 13

Take a college biological-anthropology course.... thats where you'll find all of your answers.

Then again... nothing in science is set in stone, they are all theories just waiting to be proven wrong.

Answer 14

i dont belive so...

if we did..

why are apes stil here..?

i dont belive in seperate bands of evolution

Answer 15

that is a good question. According to the bible, in Genesis 1:26, man was made in the image of a perfect, divine Creator; God. You are special and different from any other creature and were made unique. The bible says that God "breathed into man the breath of Life". You are a spiritual being as well as a physical being. All other creatures are merely physical. God made you special and to have a relationship with Him. I hope this helps!

Answer 16

We ARE apes. Our ancestors split from our cousins about 4 million years ago. Chimps, Gorillas, Orang Utans and Humans have each evolved in their separate directions since these splits occurred.

The complaint 'then why are there still apes if humans evolved from apes' is a bit like asking 'why do I have cousins if my mother gave birth to me.'

Our common ancestors didn't change into humans, but gave rise to different lines of descent that ended up with you, me, and the other great apes.

Answer 17

Yes. Monkeys and early apes evolved into australopithecines which were upright apes and from there on brain size increased, we lost the fur and learned how to use better tools. language developed and we started to exterminate other species of creatures like mammoths and such. \From there on the rest as they say, is history.