Evolution

[Ánleifr]

If we descend from apes then how come there are apes today in the world? Why haven't they transformed into humans? Doesn't add up to me....

[Mistic]

It makes no sense to me either.

[Stefan]

Taxonomically, we are Great Apes. The other apes are comparable to our cousins, not our ancestors.



Ape= Hominoidea
Great Ape = Hominidae
Homo = Man

[Ánleifr]

Taxonomically, we are Great Apes. The other apes are comparable to our cousins, not our ancestors.

oh ok, I hadn't realized that.

[finþaų]

We don't descend from the modern-day apes, but both we and them descend from an extinct common ancestor. If two groups of the same original species split up for some reason, they will continue to evolve in isolation, rendering new races and eventually new distinct species.

This is quite simple, in fact.

[Siegfried]

I think it has to do with isolation, but I'm not well read. There is a common ancestor from which we diverge. So it's not so much that a modern chimpanzee is our ancestor, but that both we and that chimpanzee come from a common ancestor and have developed in different ways to suit our environments and needs. So if one group of primitive ape species was located a few kilometres north of another and had no contact with it, it could have developed over the centuries and millenniums so that at one point it couldn't interbreed with the others due to genetic difference.

I don't know if that makes sense the way I put it. It does in my head, but it might not be fully comprehensible typed out. If you want me to clarify anything, just tell me.

[arcticwolf]

Not to be overbearing or offensive or anything but anybody that believes that evolution ( change ) is a myth and a conspiracy, PM me the name of you dealer, I know he sells good stuff!

[Ánleifr]

dang, that must have been a MASSIVE split in genes for apes to be our cousins!! We're nothing like them...I don't even see how we are considered the same species.

[finþaų]

dang, that most have been a MASSIVE split in genes for apes to be our cousins!! We're nothing like them...I don't even see how we are considered the same species.

We aren't considered the same species, first of all.

And yes, humans are very similar to apes in many respects. Have you ever seen an ape? They morphologically resemble primitive sapiens like Australoids, and to a lesser extent Europids.

[Stefan]

dang, that must have been a MASSIVE split in genes for apes to be our cousins!! We're nothing like them...

If you observe life in its totality; we are very much like them. The only thing that really deviates us from them is our intelligence and behavioral characteristics, which they don't entirely lack.

I don't even see how we are considered the same species.

We're not. In fact, we're not even the same genus as other Apes.