If humans evolved from primates does that mean primates will eventually evolve into humans?

Question

like what i am trying to say is that if we were primates so many years ago why did primates stop evolving and why do they still exsist should they all have not evolved by now

Answer 1

Primates are a taxonomic Order of Mammals first established by Linnaeus in 1758. Now within the Subclass Eutheria, there are about 400 different species of primates worldwide. Humans are just one of these primate species, others include lemurs, monkeys, and apes; humans are listed in the same taxon as the great apes.

So, humans are a primate species that evolved from an earlier primate species that, in turn, descended from an even earlier primate species, etc.

All of these primate species are still evolving but there is no reason to suspect any will attain human-level intelligence - the environmental and genetic conditions that produced humans are no longer present, neither are our evolutionary ancestors. Modern humans dominate terrestrial habitats to the point where most other primates species are threatened; over 100 African primates are listed in the IUCN Red Data Book.

The existing primate species are all evolving along their own lines - each species has split from an earlier ancestral population - and these lines continue to evolve along their own trajectory. Evolution produces a branching distribution of related species. Ancestral species do not follow the evolutionary line of newer species - each has their own set of evolutionary pressures and genetic potentials.

We may believe that we’re smarter than any other species but we’re certainly not stronger, faster, longer-lived, more resistant to radiation, more numerous, or more capable of surviving catastrophes, neither can we see or hear better or last longer without food. We’re also a relatively new species – there’s nothing that guarantees we’ll survive another hundred years much less another million. So I don’t see why humans think that the ability to think is so special; it may just be a short-cut to extinction.

Answer 2

<<if humans evolved from primates does that mean primates will eventually evolve into humans?>>

No.  It already happened, excepting that we still are primates.

<<like what i am trying to say is that if we were primates so many years ago why did primates stop evolving and why do they still exsist should they all have not evolved by now>>

They didn't stop evolving, and gave rise to other primates.  Humans haven't stopped evolving either.

Update

<<All the primates diverged from common ancestors more than 5 million years ago.>>

I take it that person isn't familiar with what 'primate' means.  It refers to any member of an order called Primates, and that includes lemurs.  The earliest known clear fossil evidence of primates is more like 65 million years old.

Answer 3

Humans did not evolve from the present day primates.  All the primates diverged from common ancestors more than 5 million years ago.  While all present day primates are still evolving, since evolution is random, we don't know how any of the extant species will change.

Answer 4

humans share a common ancestor with apes, that means that at some point in time a new species arose with an ape as an  ancestor. this happens when there is some sort of conferred advantage to a certain population that is isolated from the rest of the species that allows it to over time change into something that is completely different from its ancestor. so its not that just becasue we evolve from something that it has to die out, there can be several species that have a common ancestor but that ancestral form still exists unchanged.

Answer 5

they only changed into humans because of the conditions at the time, in few million years they might evolve into something completely different, as might humans