The Evolution of Man from Ape?

Question

How is it that the apes from which humans evolved from are no longer evolving?

Answer 1

because we (humans) are the developed form of that ape...we are still evolving, but no human can ever actually watch or witness the development and evoloving from which we are in the process of because evolving and new growth takes thousands of years...

Answer 2

Dont worry they will....The meek shall inherit the earth

Answer 3

Where is the common ancestor we evolved from? Is it us? must be yall because my people didnt start out as bug eating sub-apes.

Answer 4

Because they are now extinct.  It's easy to think that humans evolved from modern apes, but such is not the case.  By the time the ancient ape ancestor of humans was alive, the ancestors of modern apes was already its own species.  Remember that 'ape' is a classification.  We are still classified as a type of ape, but ancient apes didn't look like apes today.

Answer 5

First of all, both apes and humans ARE still evolving.  Evolution  proceeds very slowly, and several human lifespans aren't even a hundredth of a second in terms of evolutionary time scale.

Secondly, humans did not evolve from apes.  Humans and apes BOTH evolved from a common ancestor who lived an almost inconceivable number of years ago.

Answer 6

They are still evolving, so are we, all species are constantly evolving.  It is just so slow that it is not easy to notice.

Answer 7

You might be better off asking your preacher why he's such a terrible liar.

We share a common ancestor with apes, but we are not descended from them. We are the current end stage of human evolution and they of the apes. How do you know they're no evolving. Do you not understand that evolution of either species would take a long time. There are examples  of accelerated evolution, but they are relatively unusual.

And, no, man and the dinosaurs were never on earth together. The dinosaurs reigned without man for 69 million years or more - and by the time we arrived, the dinosaurs were extinct -- or evolving into birds.

The only people who make that argument  about man descending from apes are ill-read people people who spout creationist nonsense without a clue as to what they are talking about.

Science is science and religion is religion. The two can exist together, but it just doesn't work for ill-educated preachers who are not scientist to make this stuff up as they go along.

If you'd really like to know something  about evolution, then what you need to do is take some basic zoology and biology classes in an environment where science is censored for fear the truth might unsettle someone's belief.

Or, you could take the time to read a serious exposition on why creationism or intelligent design has absolutely nothing to do with science. There are some interesting questions and not all of them are answered.

You won't find them by spouting religious fundamentalism of a sort that has no regard for truth. Some do. You might try that too.

All life on earth has some common origins.

Answer 8

That's why I don't believe in evolution.

Answer 9

Any claim that any creature is evolving into another kind of creature must be taken on faith. It cannot be proven. There is no evidence for it and much against it. The more the evidence points away from a claim, the more faith it takes to believe in that claim.

Answer 10

Sorry. No evidence for any of this rubbish.

Answer 11

Technically the answer to that question is because it evolved into many different sorts of primates which evolved into many other sorts of primates some of which evolved into human others into chimps, orangutans, gorillas, etc.  So all of it descendants are evolving now, not the original ape.  You can't see it now because it takes thousands of years, you can see it after it has happened.

If you want evolution you can see look at microorganisms.  Their lifespans are much shorter allowing them to evolve quicker (this is why there is always a new flu going around).

Answer 12

The common ancestor to humans and apes has gone extinct. We humans as well as the apes have evolved from that common ancestor. However our rate of change differs.



Some years ago there was a book called "The Peter Principle". It's thesis was that individuals rise to the level of their incompetence and then stop getting promoted. In short, they end up in a niche and stay there. In Japanese business "madogiwa" are those that have no real work. They are placed next to a window. They are never again promoted.

With apes, they adapted to their ecological niche and have done very well. There hasn't be great pressure on their enviorment. It's been suggested that our ancestors were isolated in East Africa and the small, isolated population quickly evolved. "Quickly" in this case is still millions of years. Their evolution was hasten by climatic change.

Put another way, one population stayed in the forests that they were adapted to. With variation they remain there to this day. Another group ended up on the treeless plains and had to adapt to those conditions.

The shark is another good example. They have remain a viable predator for millions of years. However the "rate of genetic change in sharks is positively glacial compared with that of mammals — some seven to eight times slower.

Based on his research to date, Martin estimates that in sharks a 1 percent difference in gene sequence corresponds to approximately 6 million years' divergence time."

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education...

They are still evolving but at a slow rate.

Answer 13

They are evolving. Evolution is not progressive, it is just a change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. We and apes share a common ancestor, We went one way, do to allele frequency change and selection pressure and they went their way.

Answer 14

This question shows a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution.  Humans did NOT evolve from modern-day apes.  The human species, Homo Sapiens, evolved from a series of now extinct hominids stemming from early primates.  We did NOT come from chimpanzees and the like.  Please do research on the subject if you wish to find out more.

Answer 15

looooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad a' ****. Sorry. Jusy my opp.

Answer 16

If we are, they are.  No one ever said that humans evolved from a living species of ape,  The theory is that humans and existing species of apes evolved from a common ancestor.  

Humans still evolving?  How many teeth are we supposed to have?  Thirty-two, right?  Is that what your grade school health textbook said?  Now count 'em.  Did all four of your wisdom teeth just come in, with no difficulty?  Do you know anyone whose did?  Could it be that our jaws are becoming ever so slightly smaller?

Answer 17

You would need a microscope viewed in geologic time, to make that statement authoritatively!

Answer 18

They are.

In fact, since Humans split from our most recent Ape common ancestor, the chimpanzee has speciated again, into the common Chimp and the Bonobo. Humans have also had several species since the Ape/Humans split, the last other known species being Neanderthals, we are the only human species left.

Speciation and extinction - excellent examples of Evolution by natural selection.

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Answer 19

The theory of evolution holds that man and apes had a common ancestor a few million years ago since we share 94-98 percent of our DNA. The problem with this is that given the human genome has 3 billion base pairs, that equates to around 60-180 million invidual beneficial mutations which is highly unlikely since they are quite rare....the vast majority of mutations are either harmful or neutral. Human genetic disorders have actually risen from 4500 in 1963 to over 12,000 in 1996. The observable mutation rate clearly does not support the premise.

There are also many evidences that man and dinosaurs co-existed until fairly recent times.

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-cambod...

http://www.dinosaursandman.com/

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-acamba...

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm

Answer 20

You obviously have no concept of evolutionary time.  The age of the Earth of about 6000 years, according to Biblical scholars, isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the actual time animals have been evolving.

Edit to add.  Previous poster Paul doesn't seem to understand the concept that mutation occur across the entire genome and on all animals in the species.  They are concentrated by evolution so that "intelligent design" argument is nothing more than distortion.  It is not an argument against evolution, it just confuses the ignorant.