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If you came from your parents, do you still have parents?
Just because something new arrives, it doesn't mean that all the old things disappear!
cyclone259
As the Theory of Evolution attempts to demonstrate, evolution is not necessarily a straight line (unlike a family tree in Arkansas... sorry, but I couldn't resist).
According to the theory, it has branches like a tree and as all animals adapt to their environments, so do physical, mental and countless other factors also change. Some changes are drastic, some are subtle. There has to be a need for the changes to take place and mans differences came from what was / is going on in the world around him. Evolution also proposes that we all did come from a common ancestor and monkeys / apes and another are one branch are homosapiens.
geoff s
Think of dog breeding..(only we're using humans/apes... neanderthals ) you can still have a pure bred of something.. but when you keep on mixing breeds you come up with something totally different (as well as having the original pure breed) couple that with some adaptation and you have modern humans. Monkeys/Apes might have been different from 10k years ago (or whenever) If you look at crocs/gators.. there formula for survival hasn't changed because it does not need to.. so there fine
humans today are changing.. we are hunting less and lead more of a sedative lifestyle (wisdom teeth for example).. soon we will look like Hollywoods version of an Alien, big bald skull, big eyes, small and frail stature... ha ha I'm kidding.. but who knows maybe thats what we're headed to and aliens (future-humans) are visiting from the future to see what they used to look like and maybe laugh at us (themselves in a way) LOL!!! I should write a sci-fi about this
Anonymous
Humans didn't evolve from the apes you see today. We evolved from apes, yes, for humans are primates, but the evolutionary tree is more like an evolutionary shrub, or forest of sorts. We evolved from our ancestors which were primates of a different sort than gorrilas, orangutans, chimpanzees etc. They took their evolutionary roads to get to where they are today and humans took another route. Every living thing (and non living thing for that matter) is related to a certain degree, but that doesn't mean we are brothers or sisters. Humans and present day apes evolved from the same common ancestral line, but not from each other.
btw- if you are a anti-evolutionist using this question to prove that the evolution theory is flawed, it doesn't work with people who know something about the subject.
Labsci
Because, like humans, the modern monkeys and apes also evolved from earlier monkeys and apes, but clearly at different rates and in different directions. Humans are just the smartest ape, that's all.
Why do different species of cat exist? Because they all evolved from earlier primitive cats. Lions did not evolve from tigers, did they?