[rubymoo]

Here's an interesting one.

What's your thoughts on evolution?

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

[LukeB]

i think it's not true at all

[Liam-]

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.

[GypsyGoth]

Apes and us humans had a common ancestor.

[rubymoo]

It's a puzzler

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

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

Here's an interesting one.

What's your thoughts on evolution?

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

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

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.

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.

[Crimson Dynamo]

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

[Bluerang1]

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

I think it's all bs though

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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

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???

[Redway]

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

[bots]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

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???

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

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

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

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

[GypsyGoth]

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.