If humans evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?

Question

hey, i got an E in single award science, don't tell chavs aint got brains... what's a dogma btw?

Answer 1

Chav chimps are a throw-back.  Found in council housing estates in all major conurbations.

Answer 2

You miss the point - monkeys did not become human!!

Species split and go different routes.

Primates are mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans

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.

Answer 3

Who else would run the Home Office?

You really do need to pick up a copy of Darwin's theory of evolution. We didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a common ancestor.

Answer 4

Because humans didn't evolve from monkeys.  The monkeys came from humans.

The most common explanation among Koran commentators for punishing Jews by transforming them into apes and pigs attributes the punishment to their violation of the Sabbath. According to the Koran, the Jews in question were inhabitants of the village of Iliya.(8)  Testing their obedience to His precepts, God made a school of fish appear on the coast on the Sabbath and disappear at nightfall until the next Sabbath. The Jews, who were banned from working on that day, devised ways of circumventing the divine prohibition. According to one tradition, one Jew trapped a fish secretly on the Sabbath, tied it with a string to a stake in the ground and threw it back into the water. The next day he pulled it out and ate it. When he repeated his deed his neighbors smelled the fish and followed suit. For a long time they secretly ate fish and Allah did not hasten to punish them. But when they began to fish and sell their catches openly at the markets, they were punished.

Some of the Jews warned the sinners that Allah would punish them. When the latter refused to stop, they separated themselves from the sinners with a wall. One day, the sinners were not seen leaving their gate. When those who observed the divine precept climbed the wall and opened the doors of the locked houses they found that all men, women, and children had turned into apes.(9) According to some commentators, the young people among the sinners became apes, while the elderly became pigs.(10)

Answer 5

If you believe in, and follow the theory of eveolution, species evolve and adapt to fit in with circumstances. -fill ecological ni`ches-

For example if you look at British Birds of Prey, you will see that they all hunt in different ways and specialise in catching and eating different prey. That way there is enough food for all and they don`t fight over each others dinner. So it is with monkeys. Each monkey species specialises in living and eating in a particular way. Each species being a fully and highly evolved form. So we haven`t evolved and fazed out loads of species of monkey.They evolved alongside us.

For some reason there seem to be no "emerging", "half evolved" species on Earth.

Even or, especially, those species  that the Victorians called "primative" are in fact, fully and highly evolved. Crocodiles for instance have existed in that form for many millions of years. They must be highly evoved to do that.

So it is with humans. We are designed to live in a particular way and fit into a particular ecological ni`che. Only we seem to have outgrown that are taking over the World to it`s detriment.

According to evolutionary theory we are all in an evolutionary battle, trying to gain advantages in design to better ourselves and steal a march on our neighbours.

Don`t buy it myself.

Answer 6

I agree some people are still at the early stage,Chaves and possers.one day they will grow up and smell the coffee.

Answer 7

the monkies split up in the seventies but the music lives on, so thats why there are still monkies. + davy jones still gigs! very sad to see a bald fat man cheering up sleepy jean.

Answer 8

Because the monkeys that exist now evolved from humans.

Hey, wait a minute.  I got a thumbs down?  My answer was freakin funny, man.

Come on, people.  Where's the love?  Four thumbs down?? Do I really deserve that?

Answer 9

In evolution only a few, perhaps a couple change slightly.   These then breed and the  variation may increase further.   It is not a quick thing. Evolution takes thousands of years with just small changes between each generation.   The majority of the species would still remain unchanged.  The new variants might have superior abilities or intellect from the originals and thus in time become predominant.

Answer 10

This is where, I believe, the 'Missing Link' comes in.  It is the genetic link between the two.  I'm not necessarily a believer, but I've heard some interesting arguments about the intervention of an as yet unknown life form that lent their genetics to the monkeys and voila - Man!

Answer 11

If this question has already been asked hundreds of times, why do people continue to post it instead of looking through the (many) old answers?

And to answer your question, humans didn't evolve from monkeys, we share a common ancestor with them.

Answer 12

If I had toast for breakfast this morning how come there is still bread?

This "evolution" question comes up every now and then as a result apparently of the asker reading one or more religious books "disproving evolution."

The premise "if humans evolved from monkeys" is incorrect. There are NO evolutionary scientists that claim humans evolved from monkeys.

What happened is that monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor. As an analogy, you didn't come from your aunt, but your aunt and you had a common ancestor, namely a set of grand parents.

The "if we evolved from monkeys" argument is a straw man. It, like most of the other anti evolution arguments, is intellectually dishonest.

Answer 13

Contrary to what some have said we did evolve from monkeys and apes, just not modern monkeys or apes.  The monkeys never left the trees so they had no selection pressures to drive them to evolve in the same way we did.  Selection drives evolution not just time or mutations or some inborn tendency to greater complexity.

Answer 14

A.  Humans didn't evolve from "monkeys".

B.  Our closest relatives are apes not "monkeys".

C.  We share a common ancestor with apes.

D.  We share common ancestors with all mamals if you go far enough back.

Answer 15

I will tell you, but it won't penetrate the dogma which guides your life and you won't remember tomorrow.

Man did not evolve from monkeys.  We both evolved from the same ancestor long in the past.

They are our evolutionary cousins, not our evolutionary grand parents.  

Your argument is flawed, because you do not or will not understand the basic science behind evolution.

Answer 16

We didn`t evolve from monkeys,,we evolved as a species with a shared common ancestor with all apes

Answer 17

I'm glad you asked that question...in respond to your question I have got a very small answer for you....you see there're a lot of different type of monkey. the one that human are evolved from is no long exist...another word it becomes distinct. and thats why there are still monkeys.

Answer 18

The theory is that they would have been reproductively separate for a variety of reasons... geography, ugliness, different breeding habits etc. Same goes for all speciation.

I'll leave you to look dogma up in the dictionary.

Answer 19

Sounds as though you're one of them.

The only people who have ever claimed that humans evolved from monkeys are people like you.

What Darwin, and all other evolutionists say is that Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, and so did lots of other animals and that's all we are, another animal, the only thing that makes us special is our ability to do complex tasks, use complex tools and destroy everything we touch. Apart from that our bodies work in very similar ways to lots of other mammals.