Why are we told that humans evolved from apes?

Question

I've been trying to understand this concept like forever, and someone mentioned to me the other day that if we did evolve from apes, then why are there still apes today??

Answer 1

One letter won't work on my key board so ' means that letter.

Modern apes & humans both evolved from a common ape l'ke ancestor.  Hom'n'ds were an ape that could walk on 2 legs whereby the other apes needed 4 to move fast.  That freed up the fore legs (arms) to carry food back to the safety of trees.  All these early apes d'ed out as modern apes & humans evolved from them.  

The ch'mpanzee has actually evolved further from the ape/human ancestor than humans have. Human chromosome #2 ... an almost exact copy of two ch'mp chromosomes when fused together when one looks at the DNA.  Chuckle... hope th's makes sense w'thout us'ng that m'ss'ng letter?

Answer 2

It's not hard to imagine ape individuals leaving their group of apes and setting up home hundreds of miles away where there are different selection pressures. Eventually after many generations a distinct species is created in the exiled population.

Answer 3

we as children ask who was the first in are families and they say I dont no well we come from apes that is why

Answer 4

You are a very smart youg lady and I agree with you  100%

Answer 5

Because we did.

And we didn't evolve from the apes that are here today...we evolved from apes that split off from the other groups, just like the guy said above.

Sigh.

Answer 6

just like there are 1000's upon 1000's of different species of birds, take a canary and a bald eagle for example two obviously different looking creatures yet we still classify them as a bird, humans and apes evolved from the same ancestor, which was a monkey thing.

Answer 7

It's kind of like interbreeding Tigers with Lions, they either produce the Tigon(Male tiger to female lion) or Liger(Female tiger to male lion), but still, Tigers and Lions remain while Ligers and Tigons produce Ti-Tigons and Li-Ligers.Also the fact remains that the facial structure bodily structure and overall, DNA is similar to that of humans, you ever notice how apes stand up straight constantly?Heres a more discriptive link

http://www.msu.edu/~robin400/humanevolut... and here

http://www.msu.edu/%7Erobin400/timeline2... is an evolution chart, also, apes are probably one of the smartest species such as that of the human, an example is they can create their own tools, and shelter from branches leaves and so on.

Answer 8

have you ever watched an ape or gorilla, its wierd, i was amazed at how similar they acted!

not saying im one way or another, but it was crazy

and NO discovery channel does no justice

that and the fact that our DNA is very similar

Answer 9

We're told humans evolved from apes because we're all very similar.

However, theories like these have been disproved for many reasons including your own.

Evolution is really a bunch of nonsense, and Charles Darwin himself had realized the theory was flawed.  If apes hade evolved into humans, it would take a huge series of small changes...a species doesn't just leap from one to the next.  It is all from small "evolutionary" changes.  So, why do we not see a plethora of intermediaries through the ages?  It would take a whole lot more than just a Bigfoot.  Where are the fossils of these common ancestors and intermediaries?

DNA of apes and humans are about 98% similar.  However, humans and dandelions are anout 70% similar, and I don't know about you, but I don't look 70% dandelion.

Sadly, people automatically assume that if you are disproving evolution you are saying that it must have been God, and refuse to listen, claiming you are just a wacky religious fanatic.  The truth is, there is something OTHER than evolution that would solve the mystery, but no one has the evidence to say what EXACTLY happened.

Keep looking, but not in evolution's direction.

Answer 10

I was never told that humans evolved from apes. We did not evolve from apes. We share a last common ancestor, that is why we still have apes today. I am not picking on you but this question has been asked and asked and asked.

Answer 11

Tracing back through time DNA and RNA, plus if you look back at our ancestors, they looked like upright apes (ie. Lucy).

Answer 12

We *still* are apes, just hairless ones.

Answer 13

Try reading a book on evolution,  Try Darwins "The Origin of Species."  it has been almost completely proven that we've evolved from apes.

Answer 14

Who told you humans evolved from apes?  This is a common misconception about evolution which I am surprised to find is still around. Humans did not evolve from apes. Humans and apes did evolve from from a common ancestor as, way back in time ,did all mammals .

Answer 15

It's not that humans evolved directly from apes. Apes and man evolved from a common ancestor.