If humans came from monkeys, why do monkeys still exist?

Question

If humans came from monkeys, why do monkeys still exist?

Answer 1

Actually I cam from my mother's v****a!!

Answer 2

747's decended from DC-3s & DC-3's still exist

So what's your point ?

Answer 3

Because the theory is wrong. We didn't come from monkeys.

Answer 4

idk but i was reading the theory of evolution vs the theory of the bible and from what they say we derived from difff micro something or the other i am still reading if u like you search the web creation vs evolution

Answer 5

They're the remnant left alive to repopulate the world after we destroy it.  Didn't you watch those movies?

Answer 6

The Strepsirrhini, or “wet-nosed” primates, which include lemurs and lorises, branched off around 63 million years ago.

Old World monkeys and apes divided from New World monkeys about 40 million years ago.

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago.

The apes split from Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago.

Humans and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years ago.

So yes on each split the original got left behind to stay as it was! I am sure that many of the "left behind" species are perfectly happy as they are and that there are a good many humans that would not mind trading places with them!!!

But 233 chimp genes, compared with only 154 human ones, have been changed by selection since chimps and humans split which simply shows they are still evolving but in a different direction!

Answer 7

Because monkeys are superior to humans!

Answer 8

Humans beings didn't come from monkeys.  You have these stupid scientist who for years have been trying to convince us that we are all from monkeys because they can't find out how we came here.  The monkey are our closest relatives.  They behave like us more than any other animals on earth but we never came from them directly.  I do not believe in Evolution.  I believe God made the world and us but people who doesn't believe in God want to have their own theory and came up with that story.

Answer 9

are you sure we came from monkeys!?

Answer 10

If protestants broke off from catholics, why do catholics still exist?

if humans came from primates, why do primates still exist?

Oh I forget, Homo Sapiens IS a primate

Answer 11

If white americans are descendants of Europeans, why are there still Europeans?

If Native Americans came from Asia why are there Asians?  

Answer 12

My son and I had a serious debate on this one; I don't think humans derived from apes at all.

Answer 13

*Sigh*

We don't come from monkeys, we share a common ancestor. We are actually a part of the Great Ape family of animals, which monkeys are not a part of btw.  

Answer 14

I don't believe in all that Evolution stuff. I believe I am here and I am human and that's all the proof I have of my existence.

Peace and Luv

Answer 15

If the presence of a new species meant that none before it were alive, we'd all starve to death, for there wouldn't be any life on Earth other than ourselves.

The real question is "why aren't the links between apes and humans still alive?"  Apes were well-suited for nature, and humans were better than all the in-betweens.  So we're here, apes are here...the links are not (I could be wrong here, but I believe the theory is that several links were around at the same time, and humans killed them off).