We from chimpanzees????????

Question

Have we evolved from chimpazee?????

Answer 1

no. from apes i guess.

Answer 2

No, we did not evolve from chimpanzees any more than you evolved from your cousin or Chevy pickup trucks evolved from Volkswagon Beetles. Humans & apes have a common ancestor that dates from millions & millions of years ago, but we did not evolve from them.

Answer 3

Neither our ancestors were chimpanzees. Cro-magnun people might look like chimpanzee. But human being is still human being. Human being do evolve, only physical, mental, emotion and skills. Human are capable of mimicking animals. May be this impressed people about chimpanzee and human.

Answer 4

this is a strongly debatable situation... not yet proven on either sides of the debate... Don;t listen to anyoine answer, you don't know what is true and right now... nither do scientists. hope i helped :D

Answer 5

Well, if believe in God and on how create Adam, I'm sure you won't believe that we evolved from chimpanzees.!! Just imagine yourself that you look-like a chimpanzee.!

In the Bible, it is clearly stated that God made Adam via dust from earth. It's found in the book Genesis. And I firmly believe in what the bible says for God made us for a purpose..

Answer 6

No, we share a common ancestor.  Basically, somewhere, way back in our history, the family of ape-like ancestors split, one group later evolving into humans, and another group evolving into chimpanzees.

Putting it into more easy to understand terms, we're like great great great cousins.

Answer 7

We are not from chimpanzees... But we are from apes according to Charles Darwin an evolutionist we are from apes but as the times goes by.... we are improving the way before and tranformed us into humans because of the temperature and out surrounding.......

Answer 8

The short answer: No.

The long answer: We evolved from the same ape as chimpanzees did, which makes us first degree cousins.

A few million years ago, the weather turned hotter and forests shrunk. Some apes remained in the shrinking forests, some apes ventured into the savannah and adapted to an environment with less shelter and less food. They quit walking on their knuckles, became smarter, faster, and took up hunting in packs and using tools.

We know very little about the forest apes because fossils don't form in the forest soil. But we know quite a lot about the savannah apes.

Ample evidence of our relationship with chimpanzees remains in our DNA. One of our chromosomes is made up from two ape chromosome and the joint is still detectible. There are also traces of old viral infections, which left 'scars' in the DNA - and our scars are in the same place as chimps' scars, as they would if we came from a common ancestor.

This is a comparison between human and chimp DNA:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/ac...

As you see, the 'scaffold' on which genes are lying is very well conserved. The missing bit from human chromosome 2 is the last chimp chromosom marked C - if you put it upside-down, the match is perfect. Most other changes come from translocation and inversions, meaning that the bits are there but they were shuffled around.

Answer 9

We not evolve from chimpanzees.  Rather we and chimpanzees evolve from common ancestor which, presumably, more chimpanzee- than human-like.