Do you think Humans came from Apes?

Question

Its confusing in a way they say that apes and humans have something in common

Answer 1

It's all on who you believe in. The evolutionist or the creationist. I believe the latter.

Answer 2

maybe apes came from humans.  They dont destroy the rivers, ozone and can't nuke each others ***

Answer 3

Monkeys evolved into apes which are generally tailess and larger.   Apes have been around since the Miocene at least 20 million years.  Some apes evolved along the hominoidae lineage.  They became upright.  It appears that one of these upright apes split into two populations.  One population went on to develop into chimps.  The other went on to develope into humans.  There were other branches during that development.  For example, chimps split into two populations a million years ago and developed into bonobos and chimps.  The human line developed into all sorts of hominids, from Neanderthals, possibly australopithecus, paranthopus, homo erectus,  homo heidelbergensis, etc.  The answer is yes, of course we did.  Apes came from apes, and we came from apes.  We are essentially the last in a long line of bipedal apes.

The reason there are still monkeys and apes is that there are numerous niches that support animals with various characteristics.  A chimp is evolved for its niche, a human to its niche, a monkey to its niche.

Answer 4

NO HUMANS COME FROM APES WE HAVE SOME THIBG IN COMMON LIKE WE BOTH EAT BANNAS OF A TREE WE BUT WE DONT COME FROM THEM

Answer 5

Every animal in this world has a common ancestor. Apes and us have a more recent one.

Answer 6

No, and no one who understands the theory of Evolution does either. Humans and apes are said to have a common ancestor. In other words, there was some creature who was a primate but neither an ape nor a human that precedes us both. Somewhere along the way their descendents split and one group became humans and the other group became apes.

Answer 7

this is not true at all just something pop culture has gotten a hold of and has beaten into your poor confused head. the truth is that apes and humans share a common ancestor (as in a creature that we both originated from, branching off our own seperate ways on the "family tree" if you will. so we do have quite a bit of genetic information that is similar but we never came from apes. picture this common ancestor as the trunk of the tree and the left branch being apes and the right branch being us. hope this clears it up for you. :)

Answer 8

Humans vs. other Great Apes eh, ok.

We humans were not - in a way - the lucky ones. Once upon a time, Chimps and Humans did not exist, there was something about 1/2 way between us , able to walk upright, maybe able to vocalize a little bit and clever.

But one day , some - but not all of these 1/2 chimp/men wandered into a new area, over a mountain range or across a wide river, or through a desert area that might have been in bloom from an occasional rain.

This new area we settled in was alot like our original home, but it was a little different, and very slowly, the climate changed around this new environment, becoming dryer - with fewer trees and less foraging foods (berries etc) available. We started to have to work for a living (this is the "bad" luck part).

So we became a little bit better at going from small groups of trees to other small groups of trees. Eventually, we got pretty good going from group to group and became really much better "walkers" than our cousins the Chimps. We became better because we had to , in order to get food.

Chimps in most areas , have the primate version of the good life, banana trees and other fruit trees are indigenous to their ranges. So why walk when you have convenient banana generators every few feet.

So through some initial adversity where we had to change , it set in motion some events - namely upright walking and having to travel over distances which allowed language and vocalization to increase, eventually we got to going from long-distance calls and cries to close in communication for coordinating activities on kills.

This was a MAJOR benefit and those chimp/men who used those language skills definitely had advantages over not just prey animals but also against other tribes of chimp/men. Think of this as a major weapons advance. It's no longer individual apes fighting one another, but a coordinated attack or defence, which is likely to be much more powerful and effective.

Because of just a few differences between ourselves and other apes, we know WE we are different.

We have three things going for us.

1. We have language , not just vocalization but GOOD vocalization, most all apes can vocalize, we can talk no other ape can do that.

2. We have the ability to abstract concepts, we actually shared this trait with Neanderthals, both species apparently buried their dead in ritual fashion but we had another different which has made ALL the difference.

3. We have a difference in our physical brain makeup which allows us to be SERIOUSLY creative. One of the ways we tell Neanderthal sites from Homo Sapiens sites - aside from the bones, is that the tools change rapidly over time, from simple , crude tools in lower layers to more advanced tools, usually changing over decades or centuries, but Neanderthal tools from 200,000 years ago look nearly identical to Neanderthal tools from 40,000 years ago.

That creativity, coupled with language and our ability to ritualize things, got us moving in our present direction.

We ritualized death, and birthrights and then meals and celebrated after storms passed us by and when we found extra food or after victory in battles.

Over time, and very much probably due to necessity , we learned to train ourselves to defend or attack other animals or other tribes, this training became ritual education which leads to kindergardens and Ph.d programs before you know it.

As far as whether we are still evolving , yes we are, but not in a "natural" way...Naturally speaking we are foragers and probably indigenous to some sort of mixed tree plain or sparse forrested areas. We spent most of our evolution in trees and on these tree-lined plains. Barring language and serious creativity on our part, we would still be there.

So what's different since we left the trees and plains, plenty - literally.

After leaving Africa, modern humans had a simple toolkit of things , we had language, simple tribal structures and we knew how to dominate a food-chain with tactics and tools/weapons.

In three locations on Earth - it seems independently, we developed farming and about 1000 years later, written languages were developed (independently for sure).

In Mesopotamia about 7-9 thousand years ago.

In IndoChina, about 6-7 thousand years ago.

In MesoAmerica about 3-4 thousand years ago.

These first civilizations gave rise to the first farming communities which were not nomadic. What's the benefit of NON-nomadic lifestyles - well, simply put FOOD, and plenty of it.

A single small groups of farmers can produce much more food than they can consume and therefore not EVERYONE has to be a hunter or a gatherer.  Ever since then we're no longer directly being influenced by nature, as directly as our chimp cousins.

However cool farming was, eventually someone has to figure out how to count all these bushels of food, and then sooner or later, somone's going to have to figure out how to store them so they stay dry, and before you know it, you've got some big dude named Urg who want's their share because it would "just be better for everyone" if they had some, and thus, the taxman/mobster was born.

And so on, before you know it, you've got  cops and robbers, landlords and tennants, rich people and poor people , conservatives and liberals etc.

In fact we're still evolving, since about 5000 years ago things are definitely looking up.

1. We are about a 1.5 feet taller than our non-farming ancestors, this is still the case today , when we find indigenous tribes, if they haven't developed farming, they tend to be somewhat shorter than the rest of us.

2. We're probably a bit smarter - Don't get me wrong, The smart people from 3000 years ago were still pretty freaking smart, but the "not so smart" (the middle 60% or so of us on the IQ scale), have DEFINITELY had some benefits, and we (collectively) are smarter as a result of nearly universal literacy in most countries, and because of formal education since the invention of the writing and later on , books made it possible for people to study and learn on their own.

3. We are healthier than our precedessors, we suffer much less from common disease and know how to cure or avoid some diseases which otherwise might kill us.

4. We live ALOT longer than we used to , while we're not immortal (yet), we live about 2-3 times longer than we did when we had to literally run to kill and catch our dinner. Even after farming, it was probably the case that you were "an adult" by the time you hit puberty, had a few kids by the time you were in your late teens or by 20, were well on your way to middle age by 25-28 and were most likely dead by 40.

Today, it's quite common to get married in your late 20's or early 30's, have kids in your 30's and be active well into your 60's and finally kick the bucket somewhere in your 80's.

Answer 9

no.  Humans and modern apes share a common ancestor.

If we compressed the time line the ancestor we shared would be akin to your great great great great great great aunt.

There is misinformation that humans looked like chimps then evolved, rubbish.

Chimps etc are as evolved as we are, perfectly adapted to their environment.

Answer 10

Humans are apes.  We share a common ancestor with the other great apes (chimps, gorillas, orangutans).  Our lines diverged over a million years ago, the exact time depending on which species we're talking about.

Since we're so closely related, particularly to the chimps, who are our closest relatives, we share a lot of things with the other apes.  Hands, facial structures, lengthier childhoods than most species, all sorts of things.

Answer 11

We do come from apes that's why my ears are hairy

Answer 12

Not really. Genetically, they share the same DNA to about 98%. That means that there's only a 2% difference between apes and humans. Of course, it's a pretty big difference... apes are a lot more reasonable and nicer, although not as snappy a dresser as us humans!

(And yes, we don't COME from apes. We share a distant ancestor).

Answer 13

If humans came from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Answer 14

We evolved from an ape-like primate. Us and other great apes walking the Earth in the present day have a common monkey ancestor.

Answer 15

No! Humans were built by god. The man was made of dirt and the woman, obviously a superior life form (at least that what my wife tells me) was made from organic material. This was done just about 1650 years before the “great flood” in the bible where god decided to kill off all the humans save Noah, his wife and their kids and families.

We humans only share about 98% or 99% of DNA with Chimpanzees so how can anybody say that we are similar. h**l it was at least 5 million years ago when Chimps and us god-created-humans shared the sane ancestor. To a republican that is longer than an 8 year term polluting the White House.

Jim D