If Darwin said, human is an evolution of ape, then why we still can see ape today?

Question

If Darwin said, human is an evolution of ape, then why we still can see ape today?

Answer 1

We still see ape today precisely because Darwin didn't say that... Let us first define evolution. Evolution is the slow, gradual change or development of the characteristics of animals or plants from one generation to the next.

Note that large changes in life forms take place over thousands or million of years. Because we cannot watch evolution taking place, scientists look for evidence it has occurred.

Fossils, which are the remains of ancient life, provide the most important evidence. In short, Darwin is sure that all forms of life had evolved from earlier forms. Therefore, we didn't evolve from ape as what you thought.

Answer 2

we did not evolve from apes but both evolved from a common ancestor

Darwin definitely did not say "human is evolution of ape"

Answer 3

People keep asking this same ignorant question, then ignore the answer.  We did not evolve from apes, but from a common ancestor.  Our development continued on different paths.  Now -- are you going to do any further research on this, or are you going to just reject this because it doesn't fit into your paradigm?

Answer 4

Well, you see, some apes decided not to evolve.

Answer 5

humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, which is now extinct.

Answer 6

You R a moron

Answer 7

If you have no actual knowledge of basic anthropology (as your question shows) then you shouldn't be in this section. But, to answer your ignorant question, we CAN'T see the ape today, because the apes we see are NOT the ape we evolved from. The apes of today evolved from other apes themselves. If you go far enough back, we have ancestry in common.

Answer 8

The same reason wolves, which dogs evolved from, are still around.

Answer 9

I'll tell ya what, you go to google or yahoo and type

why are there still apes?

and you will see THOUSANDS of people asking the exact same question and getting answers.  The question stems from a major misunderstanding of evolution.  It's like someone asking "If god had s*x with Mary, how was she still a virgin?"  See how silly that sounds to someone who knows the story?

Answer 10

Because not all apes achieved the critical gene to make them human. SOME apes evolved : less hair, opposable thumbs, walking upright, lost the tail.... and then they procreated and proliferated until finally, critical DNA sequencing made us human.

The other apes / monkeys, did not adapt or change that well and most remained apes and produced ape-kin.