Have caucasians and mongolians evolved seperately from apes?

Question

looking at europeans i feel they have evolved from chimps, but looking at mongolian people i feel they resemble more to orangutans. also

chimps are found in africa(near to europe) wherea orangutans are common in asia.

please note this is not at all racist. my question does not imply racial superiority for one race over another. and personally i believe in equality of different races deep down.

Answer 1

The Caucasian/Mongoloid genetic split took place 40,000 years ago, in the vicinity of the Kazakhstan/Caspian Sea area!

Those tribes who headed west (towards the Caucasus Mountains) ultimately became Caucasoid/Europeans, and those who headed east, became known as Asian/Oriental/Mongoloids...

Answer 2

I'm not sure, but it is certainly an interesting thought!

Answer 3

No! They both share a common ancestor. Genetics PROVE that. Neither chimps nor Orangs are that common ancestor.

Answer 4

First,NO humans have evolved from Apes.That is a misinterpretation of evolutionary theory. Apes and Man are descended from a common ancestor,so they share similar genetic, physical,and social characteristics. Only 500 genes separate a chimpanzee and a human being.  

But to try to correlate specific human racial types or physical characteristics with various species of apes is a red herring.

Differences in coloring, height and other superficial characteristics are mostly environmental and species specific traits, not actual links to some simian counterpart.

Answer 5

No! We evolved at exactly the same time as Apes and Roaches and birds and horses and fungi and sea snakes and blue whales and beetles and christians( but this group is apparently on a evolutionary dead end, much like Neanderthal.

Just joking re the christians, I can't help myself.

On your self-assumed largess regarding your supposed magnanimity re races, you had better find a new text book or a better professor. There is only....ONE....race of humans,  currently on the planet. it's us, the Human Race.

Answer 6

Nope.  All humans share the same family tree.  There have been a whole bunch of species between us and the last common ancestor between us and the chimps, our closest relatives.  That's another misconception: we didn't evolve from the chimps.  We and the chimps evolved from a common ancestor.  It's like how you didn't come from your cousin; you and your cousin both came from Grandma and Grandpa.

You can see on the chart below that the human and chimp line separated about 3-6 million years ago (the chart says 3, but the number's disputed and it probably took awhile anyway).  The orangutan line separated off from the rest of us about 15 mya.  We are actually least related to the orangutans out of all the great apes.

What our line did gets a bit confusing.  The second chart there lays it all out, sorta.  The _ardipithecus ramidus_ is either on the chimp line or the human, I don't think they know yet.  As you can see, from whatever that common chimp/human ancestor down to us, it's a bit of a confusing mess, with lots of other species and relationships that we're just not sure of, still.  One thing isn't in doubt, though.  There are a lot of species there, and the chimps most certainly are all humans' closest living relative.  Human DNA and chimp DNA are about 98% the same.  The rest of us great apes (us, the two kinds of chimps, and gorillas) share about 96% of our DNA with the orangutans.

Answer 7

The human species has a common decent from central africa. The only reason for differences in the human species is adaptation to specific environments. Caucasians and mongolians morphological differences are an example of homologous divergence, but it is still very evident from genetic distance that we are the same species. If we evolved from separate ancestry we wouldn't be able to successfully interbreed.

Answer 8

Tony, that would be a good and interesting thing to look up on google.  dont just wonder out loud.  Look it up