If humans evolved from a common ape species then why have apes and chimps etc not evolved also?

Question

im not questioning evolution but just why have humans evolved so much when our closest animal relatives havent....

Answer 1

because they dont need to

also they were in teh wrong place at eth wrong time

Answer 2

Both Apes and Chimps (who are also apes) have also evolved. They have just evolved differently.

Answer 3

because evolution is a THEORY that is taught as fact, and I believe it is a false theory and that a literal 6-day creation by God is how this earth was created - meaning that humans were not evolved from apes and chimps.  

Answer 4

evolving is a very slow process like the earth turning around its axis noticing may not be possible .evolving does not mean the whole species change to a new species ,only the fittest or who have tried to live diffrently form a new species .a simple form of evolvement is human IQ if you notice we are smarter than our grandfathers, and our childern will be smarter than us.Memory levels in  some sects and communties in humans also differ due use memory for learning purpose  by their forefathers.

Answer 5

We didn't start as chimps we both evolved from a common ancestor. The common ancestor split off and you now have chimps, humans as well as many of the other old world apes.

Answer 6

we don't all evolve in the same way. think of evolution as a tree of branches, not a straight line. You might as well ask why didn't giraffes evolve like us, and every other animal. We all evolved in different ways depending on environmental factors. Chimps and the lot have evolved and adapted to THEIR surroundings, and so did we.  

Answer 7

ask them

Answer 8

I totally agree. I know naysayers and evolutionists that believe this theory believe it was from a particular species of ape...but still. Why are there still apes?

I firmly believe that our cells and us as humans evolve. We can see this from one generation to the next. However, they have found bones in Africa, which they believe to be a few thousand years old...and it's still a human...perhaps a shorter, stockier version, but still human. There is absolutely no solid evidence that we evolved from apes.  

Answer 9

Chimps are just as evolved as humans.  Chimps have adapted to a different environment.  Ask yourself this, how long would you survive naked and alone in the middle of a jungle?

After the human/chimp split, between 4.5 and 7 million years ago, different environmental pressures caused different evolutionary paths for the two species.  To borrow a quote, you may think humans are more evolved because of all we have accomplished, Civilization, Agriculture, McDonald's, Politics, War.  While all the Chimps have done is play in the jungle and eat banana's.  However most Chimps consider themselves to be more evolved for exactly the same reason.

Answer 10

I love this article. Our evolution is only on the surface . As an anthropology student I find that people mistake cultural evolution with biological evolution.Our biological make up is still that of aprox 10,000 years ago.We only appear to have evolved more because of our capacity to use culture to change our environment.  

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31357...

Answer 11

I don't know either! My bro says were two different species. But how come they didn't evolve with us. IDK

Answer 12

I believe your assumption is incorrect.  There is not a direction of evolution leading to humans as the pinnacle.  Chimps have probably evolved a great deal since they split from the last common ancestor with humans.  It is quite possible that chimps and humans evolved from a last common ancestor that was bipedal, meaning it walked on two legs like humans.  For example, Ororin, was a bipedal ape that lived over 6 million years ago, the presumed time of the last common ancestor with humans and perhaps it was the common ancestor. Chimps evolved in forest environment and developed extremely strong arms and developed knucklewalking to help move through the lower forest canopy and retain its strong arms from moving through the trees.  Bonobos, which are very closely related to chimps, did not evolve as much as chimps when they split from chimps about a million years after the last common ancestor with us (perhaps 4 to 5 million years ago).  This is probably why bonobos are much closer to us in behavior and physically.  Perhaps it was chimps that evolved the most.  Clearly we have evolved significantly in our intelligence and language but chimps are extremely well adapted.  Other apes such as gorillas and orangs are very well adapted to their niche and haven't needed to change much.  That is the way evolution works, when the environment changes or an animal moves into a new niche, it undergoes a rapid period of evolution where the new optimal features are acquired.

Answer 13

probably something made that particular species evolved into cleverer monkeys and not the others. mutations may have occur. (mutation may be good or bad)  

Answer 14

Over the course of the past 100,000 years of human evolution, all primate species have undergone 100,000 years of evolution. Why would you think otherwise?

Answer 15

Thumbs down on every answer, wtf?! as for your question.. i don't believe we evolved from apes.. (Edit) i was only stating my opinion.. but i guess thats life :P

Answer 16

Each of the five great ape species, humans, gorillas, chimps, bonobos, and orangutans, have evolved (and still are) to better fit their environment.

It's my understanding that a small group of primitive man left Africa a few millions years ago and became genetically separated from their original "group". This led them to evolve on their own, and their environment was different, so they evolved differently.

Chimps and bonobos are very similar, but they evolved differently because they were separated at one point (by a river rising I think?), and food supplies led to their cultures being different. The plentiful food of the bonobo land led to a more gregarious species, whereas chimps are a bit more scrappy because their food supply was more limited -- or so the theory goes.

Your detail about maybe we haven't evolved as much as we think is a very interesting point though. For all of our advances, and our discoveries, I don't think we are really any different (or better) than our primitive ancestors. Rather than tribes throwing rocks and spears at each other, now countries shoot missiles at each other. Rather than further explore space and cure disease and help one another out, we invent even more elaborate ways to kill one another. Are we really that evolved?

Answer 17

Apes and chimps have evolved, just like we did, from that common ancestor. It's just like Americans and Australians. We both have common ancestry in Europe but there are still Europeans around. The difference is that the common ancestor between chimps and us went extinct.

Answer 18

Chimps have evolved just as much as humans have, they have simply evolved to fill the niche they currently exist in.  Natural selection does not favor humans or chimps or whales, it favors the organism that is best suited to fill a niche. We happen to be the best ground dwelling, up rite walking, big brained primates.  Chips are the best small bodied, partially arboreal, vegetarian jungle primates.

Answer 19

well usually apes and chimp and gorillas and orangutans, they travel slowly, if at all. humans as our first apes cousins, traveled constantly to combat the ice age and other serious weather flaws. they stopped walkin on all fours, developed fire, tools and learned how to talk. long story short, they had to or theyd die.

Answer 20

Evolution has too many sticky points like that.  Another one is how did land mammals evolve into whales.  If evolution happens over a long time, they couldn't have survived in the water until they were fully evolved, and if they changed over time, they couldn't have survived on land either.  In all the millions of generations scientists have observed of bacteria and fruit flies and other such creatures, never has a single one evolved into something else.  Keep asking these questions.