If man came from apes?

Question

why do we have different races of peple and speak different languages. Are you telling me there were Chinese apes and Hindu apes etc.

Answer 1

You chaps here are funny, as in amusing.

Answer 2

While there certainly were asian apes, only one species gave rise to Homo erectus. While there is debate about which species this is, it is generally acknowledged to be either Homo ergaster or Homo heidelbergensis. The ancestor almost definitely came from Africa and spread to Eurasia. Races evolved likely due to natural selection, though Darwin proposed that sexual selection might have been involved. Languages evolved independently.

Answer 3

Humans sucessfully mutated from a common ancestor as Chimpanzees 5-7 million years ago, that's more than 1 million generations ago.

Chinese, Hindu, as well as all the other "pockets" of Homo Sapiens, by adapting to specific climatic conditions, and some amount of tribal inbreeding, took on different outward appearances, within the past 200,000 years...

Answer 4

Yes, categorically. Read "What Evolution Is" by Ernst Mayr to find out why.

Answer 5

If we evolved from apes, and the Earth was only 6000 years old, then you might argue that there must have been Chinese, Hindu or apes of other areas for humans to rapidly evolve from, but this was not so.

Humans have been around for millions of years.

Here, meet our relatives:

Sahelanthropus tchadensis. 6 to 7 million years ago

Ardipithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago

Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago

Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago

Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago

Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

(Homo neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago)

Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present

Before them, between 5 and 10 million years ago, there was our common ancestor with the apes. This is what is romantically called "The missing link".

Answer 6

Okay so apes did not evolve into people of different races .. the apes evolved into one race that is said to have originated somewhere near south africa ... generations later some of the ape descendents emigrated away from africa to other areas (now countries) to inhabit other areas. Over many generations the ape descendents continued to evolve due to its habitat and the temperature that is why people in colder countries developed lighter skin. Then even futher along the line the ape descendents evolved into people who developed communities, languages and culture. Even today humans are still evolving e.g people today are alot taller and have larger heads than people in the Elizabethan era.. As the cultures mix we are still evolving.

Answer 7

Languages adapt and modify due to local needs (look at all the words that Eskimos have for snow).  According to Genesis, different languages arose at the Tower of Babel.  Prior to that, the world language was Hebrew.  To a great extent, it still is.  Just two small examples.  The Hebrew word for chair is pronounced "key-say".  So is the Hindu word for chair.  The Hebrew expression for good-by is shalom alachem.  The arabic expression is salam alaykem.  The Tagalog (Philipines) expression is s'lang.  The American soldiers brought that back to the US as "so long"

Answer 8

I don't believe man came from apes. Darwin was a great student of nature but he got it wrong. Survival of the fittest, yes but that isn't evolution as we understand it today. I could stay in the water until my body totally pruned up but I still couldn't breath under water.

On the other hand, there is a drought and the turtles with the longest necks can reach the higher branches where the food is. The turtles with short necks all die of starvation. The turtles with long necks breed and surprise! Suddenly all the turtles in the next generations have long necks.  That's survival of the fittest.

Back to your question and Chinese apes - I don't believe one group of animals evolved into millions, nor do I believe our children should be taught theories as fact. There is not found a stair-step evolution connection between man and other primates.

In about the third grade, I saw a picture of a Duck billed Platypus and the caption said this creature is extinct. Today, I know these creatures live and flourish in Australia.

Answer 9

You're completely right! Man did not evolve. We were created by God. Read about the first 6 chapters of Genesis.In there(I'm not sure the chapter and verse) it says God created everything after it's own kind. Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Humans didn't evolve from all Apes.  There is a concept called species.  A single population of a common ancestor split from a single common ancestor ~6 million years ago.  There were several types of apes other than the common ancestors.  The miocine is known as the age of apes because there were so many types.  One group that split off our common ancestor became chimps and bonobos and the other became the many species of hominids.  A single species of the hominids became modern humans a few hundred thousand years ago.  A single population of our species spread out of Africa about 60 to 70 thousand years ago and displace all other hominids.  We may have been multiple races but the population out of Africa absorbed or displaced all humans.  Over time the current races evolved.