If man evolved from Apes?

Question

If man evolved from Apes, then why are Apes not continuing to evole and walk out of the jungle on a daily basis?

Answer 1

Because they fitted in that environment.

Answer 2

Because apes did not turn into us we split off from another part of the primate family millions of years ago. And evolution doesn't happen very fast or for no reason at all. It happens due to a need to adapt.

Though look up some information about something that happened about 3 years ago. Pandas don't walk on two legs, and one of them started to.

Answer 3

Not all evolution leads to human beings.

Answer 4

In addition to the explanations already provided, it must be noted that we have a common ancestor with the apes, and that we did not evolve directly from the apes themselves.  

Answer 5

Evolution takes MILLIONS of years. Homo Sapiens split from the common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees and bonobos 5-7 million years ago, an eyeblink in terms of the Earth's life.

Have you seen bonobos walk? It's almost eerie. Walking upright is a huge step for ape evolution, since that leaves two hands free for tool use. Apes today are evolving, slowly, just as we humans are evolving, slowly.

Remember, evolution is about changing advantageously, not just because.

Answer 6

You are making a mistake that evolution has a goal to produce humans.  It would be just as valid to ask why don't all primates evolve into baboons.

Answer 7

Actually, that's on the list of the "Arguments Creationists should not use."

See http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Are... for the creationist website.

Your assumption "Apes not continuing to evolve" is incorrect. Apes have evolved for millions of years and fit well into their enviorment. Like humans, natural selection will continue to change them.

Ape split from monkeys some 25 million years ago. Our common ancestor with the apes is dated to 10-13 million years ago ago and our split from the chimpanzee line is dated between 5 and 7 million years ago

The hominids include humans and the apes. They are part of the family Hominidae, of the order Primate. Humans did not "descend from the apes" We share a common ancestor with them and are considered "cousins." Chimpanzees, our closest relative, share a 99% match in DNA. In protein sequencing, the match is closer, no differences at all.  When man's protein sequencing is compared to gorillas there is only two differences in the match with hemoglobin, red blood cells and amino acids. Lastly the antgen-antibody reaction for humans is 97% from chimpanzees compared to 50% for baboons. In other words we're related. DNA is today used to show how closely people are related (as in determining paternity) and to determine if people were at a crime scene (as a means to determine guilt or innocence). It also is used to determine how long ago species split off from each other. In short, we're related. Nothing magical is required to explain where we came from.

So why are apes not becoming human? The rise of humans occurred in a small population where natural selection, genetic drift and mutation contributed to our development.Evolution is random so humans weren't the goal. They just happened. Were you to pull a band of chimpanzees out of their forest enviorment, stick them out on the savanna, wait a few millions years, you might see them evolve. In the majority of tries they'd die off. After 7 million years you'll not be guaranteed humans. The odds are simply to high.

To quote from "Arguments Creationists should not use."

"However, the main point against this statement is that many evolutionists believe that a small group of creatures split off from the main group and became reproductively isolated from the main large population, and that most change happened in the small group which can lead to allopatric speciation (a geographically isolated population forming a new species). So there’s nothing in evolutionary theory that requires the main group to become extinct."

http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Are... /faq/dont_use.asp#java_man

Good point there " nothing in evolutionary theory that requires the main group to become extinct."

If creationists sources say not to use that argument, then the issue is pretty much settled.

Answer 8

you obviously don't know the definition of evolution.

darwinism-- survival of the fittest. basically, all of the apes with certain characteristics- say smarter, standing up straighter, etc- were the ones that were surviving and reproducing (because they were more fit for survival in certain areas of the world), their traits in genes started passing down and soon a whole new generation of apes possessed these traits. gradually over millions of years, they developed into homo erectus ("cave men") and then into homo sapien (human beings- me and you =])

animals still evolve, but since our recorded span of history has only existed for a few thousand years, the human race hasn't had much of a chance to see its effects. but there are modern day examples of evolution. like the way lions in the savanna are different than mountain lions, or asian elephants are different than african elephants.

i hope this helped!

Answer 9

Because evolution doesn't happen overnight. Assuming we don't kill them all, which will likely happen, one day apes will "walk out of the jungle". They've already been observed using tools in recent times.