Evolution
 

Here's an interesting one.

What's your thoughts on evolution?

If we evolved from apes then why are there still apes?

i think it's not true at all :shrug:

I do believe in some sort of evolution, but I'm more inclined to think that we evolved from something out of the sea, rather than apes.

Apes and us humans had a common ancestor.

It's a puzzler:conf:

I think there's a missing link that has yet to be found:shrug:

Well both is kinda true, all life on earth is reckoned to have come from the sea. And as I mentioned evolution doesn't claim we come from apes, us and apes were once the same species, and just like a branch in a tree splits, us and apes started evolving on our own paths.

If humans evolved from apes then why are there still apes?

Humans did not evolve from present-day apes. Rather, humans and apes share a common ancestor that gave rise to both. This common ancestor, although not identical to modern apes, was almost certainly more apelike than humanlike in appearance and behavior. At some point -- scientists estimate that between 5 and 8 million years ago -- this species diverged into two distinct lineages, one of which were the hominids, or humanlike species, and the other ultimately evolved into the African great ape species living today

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li...faq/cat03.html

Technically chimps are human's closest relatvies. I'm taking Anthropology.

I think it's all bs though

Kind of interesting that this common ancester can't be found, but humans and apes/monkeys are still here......i think we may need a DNA test.......where's Jeremy Kyles number???:hehe:

It's not something I tend to debate, just accept as a basic fact of lie.

That's largely because humans and apes have evolved from that point so we are the latest models as it were

In a similar way we still have fish etc which came from some of the earliest genetic common ancestors

But wouldn't we/animals still be evolving and wouldn't we be seeing it now:conf:

I know it's over millions of years, but it doesn't make sense to me, I do however see some humans that resemble animals:laugh:

Yep we are still evolving, in a thousand years humans will be slightly different, on average probably a bit taller, and we will be smarter.

And in a million years, humans will be unrecognizable.