Did man really evolves from apes? base on the theory of darwin?

Question

pls. say if you are in the positive side or you are in negative side/ against the theory...thank you...

Answer 1

We are apes - the great apes, or Hominids, consist of humans, gorrilas, chimanzees, and orangutans.  Because we are of the same biological family we therefore share a common ancestor, also of the great ape variety and spawning several other varieties now extinct.  Only a matter of time before the rest (including us) are extinct as well, and I would propose that rather than fighting over this issue we educate ourselves and prepare for the future.

Answer 2

man has always been man ape always ape dog -dog -cat cat etc etc DNA only proves this.dog dog cat cat human human  Lucy has since been proven to be fully ape!how can something come from nothing?just like right now they're creating different species with mixing DNA.[asking for trouble!] new decease's and heaven only knows what else!nothing comes without a plan. and if you think there's no evidence to the bible science is proving there is right now.evidently you only study science put them together and study them both.first there was nothing then a big bang.where did nothing come from?what was there before nothing? use common sense.

Answer 3

That is what the theory said. I believe it. There is a lot of proof on the theory of evolution, basing on observations from other animals, and also from DNA analysis, which is irrefutable.

Answer 4

All scientific evidence supports evolution & absolutely none exists to support creation.  Therefore, being a well educated & pragmatic man, I'm a supporter of evolution.  

Not only do all recovered primate fossiles support evolution, but DNA confirms evolution to be fact.  Homo sapien chromosome #2 is very nearly an exact copy of 2 fused chimp chromosomes.  I could give you a detailed account of how the primate line evolved from prosimians, monkeys, then the great ape line (consisting of bipedal & quadrapedal apes), and evolution of the Hominid line, but I suspect you are aware of this.

To ignore evolution would be to flatly reject fact and very compelling evidence in preferance to myth & superstition.

Answer 5

Darwin's theory, more commonly known as the theory of evolution, has changed quite a bit over the years.  There are bits that were shown to be completely wrong, and there are whole fields that needed to be added on, like genetics.  So it goes with science: theories need to be fine-tuned.  Most of the major stuff is pretty well dealt with.  The things that scientists are still arguing over are outside of the realm of what you'd learn about in high school biology.

Humans evolved from an earlier ancestor, which gave rise to the other apes (we're still apes here).  It's like great-grandpa Joe is the ancestor of you and your cousins.  The other apes are our cousins.  Monkeys are also cousins, but from an ancestor who's further back (great-great grandma Sue, maybe).  This fits in with the theory of evolution, which says that populations change over time, due to genetic drift or environmental selection pressures.  We've got a (patchy, but still useful) fossil record, along with genetic studies that show how closely related we are to chimps, gorillas, and so on, and more traditional taxonomic methods that all bolster this theory of human development.  Changes are made as new evidence comes in (we may be more or less related to chimps than we thought, h. erectus and h. habilis were found to live at the same time), but the fundamental principles haven't been really challenged in a long time.  Evolution is one of the strongest theories we've got in science.  We know more about how it works than we know about gravity.  It's the thing that makes biology make sense- without it, biology's little more than a bunch of data from which you can make no useful predictions.  Creationists would have more leeway, scientifically, if they went after the concept of a heliocentric solar system.

Answer 6

If the Darwinian's want to believe they evolved from an ape, they can go for it!

As for me, I came from something much higher on the evolutionary chain...HUMANS!

What's my proof, just look in the Bible, says it all right there in black and white pretty clearly.

Answer 7

I am not in the negative or positive side but I have a good explaination for that. There is no proof if the theory is correct, its just a coincidence that human genes are similar to that of the apes. But we can't argue that much since that is a good concept of our origins.

Answer 8

It amazes me that jared can read wolver... and still insist we didn't evovle from apes.  Clearly we have apes in our ancestry, they just are not of the modern variety.

Answer 9

Scientific evidence shows that man evolved frm ape, the bible is based on no evidence, just wistfull thinking of people who look for answers and are gullible enough to believe them.

Answer 10

Humans did not evolve from apes.  Humans and apes SHARE a COMMON DISTANT ANCESTOR. . Comparisons of DNA show that our closest living relatives are the ape species of Africa, and most studies by geneticists show that chimpanzees and humans are more closely related to each other than either is to gorillas. However, it must be stressed that humans did not evolve from living chimpanzees. Rather, our species and chimpanzees are both the descendants of a common ancestor that was distinct from other African apes. This common ancestor is thought to have existed in the Pliocene between 5 and 8 million years ago, based on the estimated rates of genetic change. Both of our species have since undergone 5 to 8 million years of evolution after this split of the two lineages. Using the fossil record, scientists attempt to reconstruct the evolution from this common ancestor through the series of early human species to today's modern human species.

Answer 11

Everything that lives carries DNA, and even the humble Cabbage carries 40% of ours, so it's of no use looking for the similarities of DNA to make assessments.

Answer 12

If I have said it once, I've said it 100 times:

MAN DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES.

MAN AND APE EVOLVED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR, as did man and shrew, or man and dinosaur.

Go back far enough and Man and Amoeba have a common ancestor!

Think of life as a tree with each species branching off into 2+ paths just as the tree's branch does.

Answer 13

Yes, humans evolved from apes.  Keep in mind that we are not saying that humans evolved from modern apes--we share the same ancestors.

About 7 million years ago, a population of apes were split into two as a result of the opening of the Great Rift in East Africa.  One population was in an area that stayed forested, and evolved into modern chimpanzees.

The other population found itself in an are that became savanna and evolved into hominids, the group from which humans evolved.  Hominids are apes adapted to living in open savanna or broken woodlands, as opposed to all other apes, which live in forest/jungle.

As a result, hominids:

Locomoted bipedally

Had relatively larger, teeth, with thicker enamel, in order to eat the harder foods in the open environment.

The hominids radiated in to several species.  One group of hominids started scavenging meat, and using tools to a greater extent than the others, and this is the group that led to humans.

(Please note that this is a very abbreviated account).

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Answer 14

We absolutely evolved from apes. That is not the theoretical part of evolution, it's a fact. The reason it's a fact is how we define apes. We know we evolved and we have labeled ourselves and our ancestors apes. Therefore we evolved from apes.