If we really evolved from ape like creature why is there bones of them?

Question

If we really evolved from ape like creature why is there bones of them?

Answer 1

I am not sure what you are asking here?  We do have fossiles of very ape like hominids that walked on 2 legs.  Some 4 to 6 million years ago a large number of ape like hominids existed in Africa. Some were bipedal apes & some were just apes that used 4 limbs to get around.

Simply because one species evolves from another does not mean the founding species must become extinct, although this often happens when the population of a species is very low.  Evolution often happens when a species becomes isolated from the origional species & is subjected to an environmental condition that favors a specific gene. Some species isolated on islands, when the water level rose after the last ice age, became dwarf versions of the founding species.  This was due to a limited amount of food that tended to "select" for those with genes that required less food.  

New species are sometimes created when 1 or more fertile hybrids are created as 2 species breed. Sometimes these hybrids are better suited to the current environment than either parent species.

While the fossile evidence is far too low to draw a direct linage, with any degree of confidence,  from the ancestor that produced both chimps & humans, we have a number of candidates for that position. A list of early hominids that "probably" produced Homo erectus (Ancestor of Homo sapien & Homo neandertal) is available if you google "Hominids."

Homo hablis, thought to have produced Homo erectus, did not die out until long after Homo erectus appeared on Earth.

Is this what you wanted to know?  If not, try asking the question differently & I will respond.

Answer 2

Wow, I just really don't know where to start with this one.  

Ok, when an animal dies, it decomposes.  Once the skin, muscles and other tissue rot away, you're left with bones.  Sometimes, under the proper conditions, the minerals in the bone gets replaced by the minerals of the surrounding rock.  This is called fossilization.  Not all animals get fossilized when they die; the process takes place under certain conditions.

When a fossil is excavated, we can analyze the bone and we can find similarities with living species.  This is where evolutionary theory comes in.

It's not like we evolved from apes during a lifetime.  Species of all kinds evolve over millions of years.  Sometimes the change is slow, sometimes it is abrupt.  But change still occurs over a very long time.  So, we have bones of previous generations that we can study.

Answer 3

Because they existed

Answer 4

Evolution doesn't mean their bodies changed and grew into humans. It means their babies looked more human than they did, and then they died...leaving behind fossil bones.

Answer 5

Because we really evolved from ape-like creatures.  If we didn't evolve from them, we wouldn't have expected to find the bones but people did expect it, when searching, and found the bones.  Not only were they ape-like, they were apes.  We are not so different from apes.  Everyone of our bones is present in Chimps in a slightly modified way.  It is modified because Chimps live in a forest environment and a chimp is built for climbing and running through the underbrush.

Answer 6

because evolution occurs in thousands of generation.