Wait, so how did humans evolve?

Question

Did Neanderthals have sapien babies one day and then the sapiens grew up and killed their parents? ...........Huhhhh? please answer if you understand the question.

Answer 1

Couldn't their parents have died of old age?

Probably something like that yes!

Nowt to do with that JC bloke you hear so much about!

Answer 2

Ask yourself the following question:  Are you exactly like your father in every way - every single way - every hair - every bit of fingerprint?

If the answer to that is no - then you're witnessing 'evolution'.  It's simply change - from generation to generation.  That's all it is - it isn't 'moving toward' anything.  Things aren't 'evolving into higher life forms'.  They're simply changing - all the time.  

And as they change from generation to generation they are subject to chance occurrences in the environment - things which kill some and save others.  And between those two things - ceaseless change in genes and chance occurrences in the environment - that's "evolution".  

That's how you got here - enjoy it - you could evolve into a jelly fish given enough time.

Answer 3

The idea that humans have evolved is a philosophical hypothesis.

There is no actual evidence to support the idea. All hominid fossils are clearly ape or clearly human.

Neanderthals were human.http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

The evolution of man from ape is a religious idea with no merit.

Answer 4

Well our earliest ancestors were single celled bacterial organisms, then around 3.5 billion years we had multi-celled descendants. Around 800 million years ago the first animals appeared, 500 million years ago came our fish relatives. Then around 250 million years ago our amphibian ancestors migrated to the land. 150 million years ago mammals appeared, 100 million years ago came the monkeys. 30 odd million years the apes came, the first truly close genus came 7 million years ago with sahelanthropus, 2 million ears ago homo apeared, 200,000 years ago sapiens finally came into existence. Oh, and by the way we did NOT evolve from homo neanderthalensis.

Hope this helped!

Answer 5

We evolved from slime & not much has changed

Answer 6

they think now that there were two different races living at the same ti,me but that the neanderthals breed with the other group and thats how they evoled,,,according to a documentery i seen lately

Answer 7

Sapiens probably came from African/Asian H. erectus within the past 2 million years...

Neanederthal lineage was in Europe, separated from our mainstream development for at least 500,000 years!

Answer 8

This is the stuff that people tend to believe, but people do really need to believe in something, hence God , Jesus Christ. Religion. even Voodoo, so long as its something you can hang onto and hand down through the generations giving the feeling of being a part some great unknown. and that is exactly what it is. Some will believe this exactly as you have stated, just because it is typewritten.

Answer 9

Not unlike the chicken or the egg question (answer: "Egg")

Just a correction, Neanderthals aren't in our lineage. Recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome shows this.

Consider the styles of clothing between the 1600s and today (links below) To rephrase your question "Did the French aristocrats have kids that wore low rider, baggy clothes...?" Clearly, we know that's not what happened. Each generation that came along, had their own styles and gradually the styles changed into what we see today. There wasn't an abrupt change, just a gradual one.

Human evolution is gradual. Were you to have access to a time machine, you'd be hard put to identify the first baby born that was "fully human." The child's parents would seem human  as would the rest of the tribe. Take a survey of a hundred or a thousand generations and you'd likely see a trend, but not an abrupt change.

You can ask the same question about dog breeds. Exactly when is the first of a new breed born? I have a corgi that is a genetic 'throwback" Her coat is much finer and longer then the current breed standards allow. No doubt this occurred in human development too.

Don't look for a sudden change, we're dealing with hundred of thousands or years.