Scientific monkey question?

Question

If we were monkeys, and we evolved, then y are some monkeys still not evolved?

Answer 1

(1) Strictly (phylogenetically) speaking, we are still monkeys (just as we are primates, mammals, vertebrates, animals, eukaryotes.).

(2) The other monkeys (who are, btw, the vast majority) evolved just as we did - only they didn't change as spectacularly as we did. Evolution simply means that the genetic makeup of a population changes over time. If there's no need (or no opportunity) for big change then it will not happen.

The population that evolved into humans must have  found itself pretty special circumstances because humans are - well, pretty different from even our closest relatives. It could've been getting stuck in a different environment, it could've been a mutation that set us on a certain path - perhaps one that made our ancestors more likely to walk on two legs -; in any case, it set off a chain reaction of adaptation.

(BTW, until very recently there was quite a diversity of australopithecines, and later of Homo species, on the planet.)

The other monkeys, it seems, were just fine being hairy and quadrupedal :)

Answer 2

Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans and monkeys are descended from a common ancestor.

Answer 3

humans did not evolve from monkeys.if you look in the king james version bible it proves that God created mankind.look for the heading:the creation of man, then you will see that god himself breathed the breath of life into adams nostrils.i hope this helped.

Answer 4

No we were not monkeys that evolved. However I was created by God in the Image of his likeness and am not ashamed to say it.

Answer 5

Only the ones descended from the monkeys that interacted with the black rectangular monolith have evolved.

Answer 6

We did not evolve from monkeys.

Apes and humans share a common ape-like ancestor.  We branched off about a million years ago.  One branch became apes, the other branch became humans.  Got it?

Answer 7

We could not have evolved directly from monkeys.They are far more Intelligent than us.

Answer 8

We weren't monkeys; we both came from the same family tree. Way way way back, there was some sort of common ancestor.

Answer 9

YUP I THINK SO MAN.

Answer 10

Well first off their are branchs of evolution and we have evolved off the branch of chimpanzees.Think of it as a tree from the the trunk is were the origin is and through the branchs are different primates that have taken a different course through evolution.we humans have just been evolving through  are branch for many many many years through many stages like heres the two latest stages that were before us were nethradels and cro-magnems sorry spelling maybe off,but yes this is a fact and sorry non offense to your believe.So we took a different path and the other primates did to plain and simple.

Answer 11

In evolution, there are branches. Hence, while we ourselves were not really a descendant of a group of monkeys, we did share a branch with monkeys of a common ancestor of them. while we do not know the specific incidents of how and why evolution happened in this way it did. and we can see this, through examining DNA and fossil records and such that we are very closely related, as the split did not happen all that long ago, with modern-ish humans appearing 30-45000 years ago.

This branching is called phylogeny, and it is the practice of trying to map out the tree of life on paper. But there would be no reason for monkeys not to be here. We are merely a separate branch on the evolutionary tree.

Answer 12

There are many reasons that can happen.  here are two scenarios:

1.  A population becomes isolated into two distinct groups.  Maybe there is some earthquake, etc. that separates them, or maybe some of them migrate and some of them don't.  Anyway, once the groups are isolated, they are genetically independent of each other and evolve separately.  i.e. one group of monkeys stays monkeys, one group turns into humans.

2.  A single species evolves simultaneously in more than one direction.  For example, humans did not evolve from any modern ape that exists today.  But humans and the apes of today DO have a common evolutionary ancestor, which we both evolved from.  People often say "man evolved from monkeys."  It would be more correct to say "man and monkeys evolved from the same animal."