Where did apes come from?

Question

and plus tabhabwa where did these mammals come from? i know from the ocean duh but how did the mammals get there? i mean what were they before being whales, dolphins and stuff, and where did the mammals species before before them come from and so on?? i want to know what STARTED the branch leading to apes like we couldve been insects.... and then evolved... so thats my point

Answer 1

Heard of fossils?

Please go to the library ASAP and borrow books on fossils and palaeontology.

Are you really over 13?

Please go and read some science books now!

Answer 2

Apes all have a common ancestor about 18 million years ago.  It was something like Proconsul africanus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proconsul_a...

During the Miocene there were many more species of apes.  "During the Miocene epoch, as many as 100 species of apes roamed throughout the Old World. New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but Eurasia"

http://www.primates.com/history/

The apes all evolved from the common ancestor of old world monkeys and apes.  It would be something similar to modern old world monkeys so yes we did evolve from monkeys too.  Before that it was some sort of pro-simian and then perhaps a tree shrew but that is still not certain.    Our lineage goes back all the way to primitive bacteria and logically even further to organisms more primitive than any known on Earth today.

Answer 3

Wow! So you understand absolutely NOTHING about evolution. Amazing.

We ARE apes, who descended from earlier species of apes. Apes descended from earlier species of primates; who descended from earlier species of mammals.

"Popped out of nowhere"? Where do people GET these silly ideas?

If you want to understand what happened, here is a website that would help.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

BTW, the Catholic Church has officially declared that evolution is true.

There is no evidence that any supernatural beings of any sort exist.

Answer 4

sorry im answering your questionn!

but im in 6th grade.

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Answer 5

basically its microscopic animals to fishy like creatures that one day decided to crawl out of the water and then land animals began and some became apes blah blah its evolution, like the 1st guy said look at an evolution tree its interesting stuff.

Answer 6

ALIENS

Answer 7

A f r i c a

Answer 8

Apes were evolved from something else. If you google it, you can find a whole timeline of the evolution.

Let me ask you this. I am assuming you believe in god, so where did god come from? did he just appear out of no where?