Why do monkeys still exist, if humans evolved from monkeys?

Question

Did God create both human and monkey separately?
Is Evolution still a 'work-in-progress' and we don't really know?

Please, no militant atheists and no fundamentalist Christians. Let's keep this one civil and objective.

Answer 1

God didn't bother to destroy them (inventory reduction) because He knew the world would end in 2012 anyway.



Does ANYONE else know you're kidding??

Answer 2

> "Why do monkeys still exist, if humans evolved from monkeys?"



We didn't. Our last common ancestor with the monkeys existed a long time ago: about 27 million years ago.

At around that time, the primate order branched into different populations - some of which would evolve to become modern monkeys, and others which would evolve to become modern apes.

The ape family similary evolved and diverged, eventually giving-rise to the first Great Apes about 18 million years ago.

About 12 MYA, some of these apes migrated east out of Africa, nd they would eventually evolve into Orangoutans; 8 MYA, another sub-population migrated to highland "montaign" rainforest and began evolving towards being gorillas about 8 MYA; 4 MYA, the some of the remainder migrated out onto the savannah, where they began evolving towards being humans, and the rest stayed in the lowland jungles and evolved into chimpanzees.



> "Did God create both human and monkey separately?"



No. Modern monkeys all evolved from the primates which did not become apes 18 MYA.



> "Is Evolution still a 'work-in-progress' and we don't really know?"



Evolution is perpetually a "work in progress" - but these things we have a pretty good idea of.



> "If something evolves, does the original which it evolves from die out?"



If there has been no branching; no splitting of the original population into two or more sub-populations, then yes. The original population must all evolve in the same direction.

If there has been splitting, however, then one sub-popultionm *may* evolve faster and diverge more rapidly from the ancestral population than the other. So one of the new species would be more different from their ancestors than the other.



> "Or I could ask: why are there no Neanderthal men still in existence but there are monkeys?"



Neanderthals were a single species of Great Ape; there are 264 known species of monkey still alive now. I'm sure many more have gone extinct.



Furthermore, Neanderthals competed with Homo sapiens for resources, as we were very similar. It seems that we were the species "more fit" for the environment, so we out-competed them.

Answer 3

First of all, humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans evolved from a common ancestor to the Apes. Apes are big & have no tails like monkeys who are small as a cat. The main concept for the theory of evolution is "survival of the fittest". The reason why "Apes" still exist today is because they were also able to adapt to changing environment over the years. The human genome has been fully mapped by scientists in the last few years & we humans have a lot of common genetics with our cousin the Apes.

Answer 4

Evolution is a fact, just as Gravity is a fact. However, there is still the theory of Evolution, just as there is the theory of Gravity. While we know that both Evolution and Gravity occur in nature, the processes behind both facts are explained by theories. People seem to not understand this.



Fireball, I can only assume you failed Biology 101 if you believe evolution is a lie. Even the slightest genetic change from parent organisms to an offspring is still evolution.



Humans DID NOT directly evolve from monkeys. We evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.



If you want observed examples of newly evolved species, look up the "Peppered Moth" and the "Apple Maggot" on Wikipedia.

Answer 5

Because:



- Humans didn't evolve from monkeys, humans and apes share a common ancestor.



- Ancestors/ "cousins" only die out if something kills them off, or if they are out-competed to extinction. Obviously, we didn't out-compete monkeys to the point of extinction. In part because we don't live the arboreal lifestyle that monkeys do, so we aren't competing for all the same resources. That's why nobody ever thinks to ask this question about fish - it's obvious that the land animals that evolved from aquatic animals were no longer competing with their ancestors for the same resources.

Answer 6

Primates are mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans.



The Strepsirrhini, or “wet-nosed” primates, which include lemurs and lorises, branched off around 63 million years ago.



Old World monkeys and apes divided from New World monkeys about 40 million years ago.



Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago.



The apes split from Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago.



Humans and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years ago.



Of the macaque's nearly 3 billion DNA base pairs, 93.5 per cent are identical to those in the human genome. This is not unexpected for a species whose lineage diverged from our own about 25 million years ago. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged just 6 million years ago, are about 98 per cent identical.



One puzzling discovery is that several mutations that cause genetic diseases in humans - such as phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which lead to mental retardation - are the normal form in macaques and, presumably, our own ancestors.



So on each split the original got left behind to stay as it was! I am sure that many of the "left behind" species are perfectly happy as they are and that there are a good many humans that would not mind trading places with them!!!



Evolution is still in action but chimps are evolving faster than humans!!



233 chimp genes, compared with only 154 human ones, have been changed by selection since chimps and humans split from their common ancestor about 6 million years ago!!

Answer 7

Why did your father still exist after you were born, if you evolved from him? Why do your cousins exist?



Humans and monkeys evolved in different directions from a common early primate ancestor (one that probably looked something like the famous fossil called Ida). Both are works in progress and both will continue to evolve. And yes, we do know. Really.

Answer 8

At some point several million years ago one special family of primates were born with an anomaly, it could stand upright and walk. This family branched off from the rest of the monkeys. It developed in a human direction slowly.

It would stand to reason that mankind is changing to adapt to his environment..



These changes are so slow and small it would take thousands of years for the smallest difference, to be apparent. Some changes are faster. Survival is what motivates these changes.

Answer 9

Based off your other questions, your goal isn't objectivity.



But here it goes anyways: evolution doesn't work that way. Modern monkeys are like our cousins, not our grandparents. Our common ancestor primate species eventually broke into several different populations, and those separate populations evolved differently.

Answer 10

If god made man and god made animals, why would god make his pets kill his humans? Sounds like a pitiful god to me. Try using some critical thinking for this and figure it out yourself.



I'd answer your question fully, but I don't feel like writing that much. I know that after I answer it, there will be thirty other people asking the same question next week.

Answer 11

Please do at least a little research before you ask a stupid question like this.



Humans did NOT evolve from monkeys. That's not what the theory of evolution postulates. Humans and monkeys both evolved from a common ancestor. It's called speciation.

Answer 12

You've gotta be joking....



& I suppose you ignored all the "how come monkeys exist" questions Yahoo pointed out when you asked this??



You & your cousins SHARE a common ancestor, so why are you both alice??? Humans SHARE common ancestors with ALL primates, including monkeys who we also share 98% DNA.



Got it?



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Answer 13

Ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

Oops sorry, that's right no fundamentalist christians. Will a believer in the ultimate universal power do ?

There are still what we could refer to as neanderthal men running around. They are the drop kicks with the one eyebrow and communicate with incoherent grunts, dressed in baggy pants showing their backside and wearing their hats back to front.

Answer 14

Because, if true, only some populations of monkeys would've mutated into humans, not all monkeys on earth.

Answer 15

We didn't evolve from monkeys, nor do evolutionists teach that we do.



Research a little more, then ask your question a different way.

Answer 16

because only the smart monkeys evolved.

Answer 17

have you ever heard of the endangered species list? monkeys & gorillas were both on there at 1 time.

Answer 18

Because humans didn't evolve from monkeys; they share a common ancestor.



"Problem" solved.

Answer 19

...did you not know that there are multiple species of monkeys? I thought that was pretty obvious.

Answer 20

You really have no idea how evolution works do you?It's really embarrassing every time I hear this.

Answer 21

" no fundamentalist Christians"



I guess if you are not one of those, I would have to call you ignorant in the extreme.

Answer 22

and there goes Fireball , lmaoo

Answer 23

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We call this phenomena "speciation".

I'd tell you to look it up, but you won't, and I don't feel like explaining it.

Answer 24

OFFSUBJECT THIS IS RELIG



WE DIDNT. There is no evolution. It is lies...