If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?:"?

Question

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?:"?

Answer 1

If holy-rollers play with snakes why do Episcopalians still drink wine?

Answer 2

Humans did not evolve from monkeys and apes. Humans & Chimpanzees had a common ancestor long ago, and that ancestor slowly evolved into a human.

Answer 3

then how does this fit in with Man has been here 3.5 million years ,, earth 4.5 billion so when was this common ancestor

and they have found the bones of human form or so they

say.. like lucy and then the latest one that is older than lucy..

Answer 4

You question is posted about every ten days. A search will produce numerous replies besides the one here.

How about rephrasing this to "If a tree spouts a new branch, why are there still old branches?"

From the National Academy of Sciences:

"If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

     Humans did not evolve from modern apes, but humans and modern apes shared a common ancestor, a species that no longer exists. Because we share a recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and gorillas, we have many anatomical, genetic, biochemical, and even behavioral similarities with these African great apes. We are less similar to the Asian apes--orangutans and gibbons--and even less similar to monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past.

     Evolution is a branching or splitting process in which populations split off from one another and gradually become different. As the two groups become isolated from each other, they stop sharing genes, and eventually genetic differences increase until members of the groups can no longer interbreed. At this point, they have become separate species. Through time, these two species might give rise to new species, and so on through millennia. "

http://www.nap.edu/html/creationism/appe...

From Straight Dope:

Why isn't this argument used against evolution? Well, it is--it's just used incorrectly. Let's start with a quote from the recently re-released publication, Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (Second Edition).   In the section on "Human Evolution," the publication notes, "today there is no significant scientific doubt about the close evolutionary relationships among all primates, including humans."

Evolution doesn't work as a simple find-and-replace function. Have you ever seen the evolutionary "tree" diagrams in a science book?  Those trees show how different species branch off and go in different evolutionary directions. That doesn't necessarily mean everything else dies. As the National Academy of Sciences document notes, archaeological finds "reveal a well-branched tree, parts of which trace a general evolutionary sequence leading from ape-like forms to modern humans."

A word about creationists, as you'll normally find their replies here. First note that they bash evolution with regularity. However this isn't a mud slinging political contest. Tearing down one side doesn't prove yours. There are thousands of creation narratives in the world, not just "Adam and Eve..."

As to "But evolution is only a theory" In scientific terms "theory" means "explanation." So what's really said is "But it's only an explanation."

Last, evolutionary explanation has been around for 150 years. No major tenet has been disproven. Glib parroting of stock phrases won't change that.

Answer 5

If a baby were born with purple hair, why would all of the existing members of the species suddenly find their hair turning purple?

In other words, why WOULDN'T the previous forms of ape still exist? There's no reason they would all either have suddenly become human, or died.

The fact is that we ARE apes, who descended from a common ancestor of modern apes.

There's no reason to suppose all other apes would die, just because some off-spring changed in the ways our ancestors changed.

If you wanted to actually understand what evolution says, here are some links that might help you:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

Answer 6

apes, NOT monkeys