Why dont apes evolve anymore?

Question

Why dont apes evolve anymore?

Answer 1

There's not much to say that they aren't evolving.  Evolution takes millions of years, and there's not really any reason why the human race should have evolved as it has either.  Once a race becomes comfortable in its own environment, then it doesn't need to evolve anymore.  This is an area that you could spend your entire life researching, and still only arrive at conclusions that the entire scientific community will 'prove' inaccurate.  Precisely how they'll do that is a mystery.  Apes don't evolve anymore because they don't need to.  The only thing that other species on this planet have to survive is human behaviour.

Answer 2

Evolution takes a long time. Humans have only been around for a very very very short time in the history of the earth.

check out this site!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/

Answer 3

Because evolution is the change in traits that are inherited; a change that happens as a result of a need to adapt to a changing environment.  If the "apes" are already perfectly adapted to their environment, there is no need for further changes (evolution) to take place.  Moreover, it takes a very long time for any change in the allele frequencies to show.  I think a good adage to sum up why they don't evolve anymore would be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Answer 4

Who says they dont.  Evolution is a long slow process, that happens over 100,000 of theousands of years.  So you wouldnt see it if it was happening.

Answer 5

I always get a little distressed reading about evolution even from people that should understand it but in fact it is little understood and human evolution is even less so.  In fact, we did evolve from apes and the distinction between humans and apes is arbitrary.  We should be considered a bipedal ape but we get to write the biology books.  We are the last in a long line of bipedal apes.  Apes such as chimps have practically no fossil record.  It consists of a relatively recent tooth.  Chimps may have evolved very fast.  Evolution happens in puntuated intervals.  When an animal is supremely adapted, the rate of evolution slows dramatically.  There is a strange assumption from many, again those that should know better, that we evolved from chimps.  This is a rediculous assumption.  We evolved from a common ancestor.  That common ancestor may very well have been bipedal or upright so if the chimp was writing the biology books, it would certainly claim that they evolved from humans.

Answer 6

Because they never did

Answer 7

Interesting quesiton..what make you think they are finished? You've only had the very short window of time that you've been alive to look at them. Evolution works a bit slower than that (unless you're a superbug bacteria or virus, those little guys mutate and evolve at a scary fast rate).

Dude, the apes not done yet, we humans not done yet, almost nothing is done yet. Except for cockroaches, sharks and horseshoe crabs. And if you change their environments enough, they'll use evolution to adapt. The next apparant step for humans is to genetically lose the wisdom teeth...this idea is based on the fact that we have so much trouble with them currently growing in impacted so often. We just don't have enough room in our mouths for them anymore and we no longer need them to grind down the food we eat thanks to fairly recent (on an evloutinalry scale) innovation of cooking and baking our foods.

Answer 8

They are evolving.  Evolution takes place over hundreds of thousands of years.  We'll never notice any changes in our lifetimes.  Come back in the year 3539 and maybe there will be a noticeable difference.

Answer 9

Well, humans do still evolve. I mean, in the past 600 years, the average height for a causcasion male has increased by 5 inches, and it is probably the same for other races, proportionally.

Answer 10

who says us aint evolving ? isnt that the same as revolving ? i mean if we are still spinning around dont that mean it aint over til its over ? is it over or am i still chasing that monkey off my back ?

Answer 11

They given up since they aint got a chance against humans now

Answer 12

I'm not convinced that apes ever did any evolving.

One of the oldest varieties of plants is the fern.

It is perhaps 400 million years old.

And yet, ferns never learned to develop flowers, even though flowering plants have an advantage over nonflowering plants.

Why did ferns never develop flowers?

Wasn't 400 million years enough time?

Maybe I should say it more slowly and clearly for all the evolutionists...

Why

did

ferns

never

develop

flowers?

Why did birds lose their teeth?

Not just some birds...all birds.

25,000 years ago Cro Magnon man was light-years ahead of a modern chimpanzee.

If you gave your chimp paints, make sure they are non-toxic because he will get more in his mouth than he gets on the canvas.

Answer 13

Becauase evolution isnt real.

Answer 14

what the freak kind of question is that? You need Jesus

Answer 15

There is no evidence that suggests they aren't evolving.  Only time will determine the changes made for the purpose of survival of the species.

Answer 16

What do you mean? They are evolving. You just can't see the evolution happen overnight. It might take tens of thousands of years to see a noticeable difference.

Answer 17

Because they never did in the first place . That part of the "theory" of evolution was shot down by intelligent people long ago .

The red-faced evolutionists had to do some quick thinking , and came up with real winner this time ................ the "common ancestor" .

Nobody , including evolutionists , knows what this mysterious "common ancestor" is ! They blindly accept it as established fact , as they do the entire theory of evolution .

Go ahead , ask what the "common ancestor" is in this forum and see the kind of responses you get . You`ll get some mumbo-jumbo about a particular line of "ape-like" creatures and other fairy tales .

The advantage of the clever "common ancestor" ploy is that it can`t be disproved simply because no one knows what it is in the first place . This was the intent all along .

You`ll even get answers that insist evolution is taking place all the time , it just takes so long we don`t notice it in our short life spans . If that`s the case , where are the 75% ape - 25% humans ? or the 50% apes - 50% humans ? or the 25% apes - 75% humans ?  or the 1% apes - 99% humans ? ......... huh ? ......... where are they ?

Answer 18

This the snag to Darwin's theory.

According to the scientists, the oldest surviving species is the cockroach, and they seem happy not to do any evolving.

Answer 19

lol i really like this question, dont know the answer but i like it

Answer 20

They finally look like they want.

Answer 21

The evolutionists are proving their "cultism" by their 'shirty' replies (and I'm, most definitely NOT a creationist!) and the abundance of 'thumbs up' for those supporting evolution.  They've become religious 'fanatics'!!

Answer 22

Because evolution is a falacious theory.

Answer 23

i think its because when meteor hit the apes used their hand to hold food and walk on legs and move to new area on so they used to walk on legs and hold food with hands so they slowly and eventually they evolved but now its not that sort of situtation

Answer 24

u could say that bout alot of species that have been around for god knows how long, but still seem pretty simiar. im not guna pretend to be all scientific and know the exact answer, but i think they have just become a seperate species from humans...that makes no sense....ok i dont rele know, just a thought!

Answer 25

I always wondered that too.  If we evolved from apes or monkeys, then why are there still apes and monkeys?

Answer 26

I'm not actually sure on the answer BUT

to all those people who say that we evolved from apes:

humans and apes BOTH evolved from a COMMON ANCESTOR (ie the missing link).

And no, we weren't made by god, think about it for one second.

Answer 27

What makes you think you don't?

Answer 28

I reckon because man has destroyed its habitat and beaten it to the evolutionary touchline thus taking away its innate competitive instincts. Also they dont have the biological equipment needed for the formation of sophisticated sounds and therefore language which results in less brain power. You could say they're lost in translation!

Answer 29

Hello¡

I think, animals don´t stop evolving. It´s a continue evolutive process. The point is that it takes millions of years. It´s just a matter of time. The environment takes play in this process, and genes. There is a relationship between environment and genes. Remember that an individual doesn´t evolve, the species evolves.

Answer 30

They no longer bother because they know what's going to happen with global warming ! ! !

Answer 31

Cos they've seen what they might turn into