If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

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!

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.

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

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.

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?

The premise of the question is wrong. Humans did not evolve from apes, apes and humans share ancestors. Therefore there is not a species between the two.

Each went their own way. Or, to put it more explicitly, there have been a number of splits in lineage containing apes and humans in the last 5-odd million years (the lineage containing apes and humans split from the lineages leading to monkeys much earlier):

One split separated the lineage leading to today's "lesser apes" (gibbons, etc.) from the lineage leading to today's "Great apes".

One split separated the lineage leading to today's orangutans from the lineage leading to today's African "Great Apes"

Another split separated the lineage leading to today's Gorillas from the lineage leading to today's Chimpanzees and Humans.

Finally, a further split separated the lineage leading to today's Chimpanzees from the lineage leading to today's Humans. (note here that some might add a further split between bonobos and humans).

A final observation: Our problem here is our lack of objectivity when we look at ourselves. An Extra-Terrestrial Zoologist would say that all the above are apes.

Monkeys and apes had trees to climb in and didn't need to change so much but human ancestors found themselves in a treeless environment and were forced to change. They became bipedal (two legs) and ended up running and using their free hands for self protection. These two abilities really made a difference.

Look at your mother and father. Are you better educated? Better able to cope with the modern world that is changing so very fast? I believe that if you become better educated that all of your questions will be answered. Even uneducated one day we will all pass on and we will all be given the answers to the questions we have wondered for so very long. Like... If there are premonitions wouldn't we know about it before hand?

interesting...

coz obviously the SMARTER of the monkeys and apes evolved and the stupid ones are still monkeys and apes :)

I heard this question before.

Man did not evolve from apes/monkeys.

my answer would be at this moment, that whomever started this rumor, his parents left him in the environment of apes/monkeys and he thinks they are his family. From whatever language he originally was taught, he thought they were calling him DARWIN.