If we evolved from apes......?

I just can't get enough of the ignorance here.

First of all we didn't evolve from apes. We and the apes evolved from a common ancestor. Which was probably very much like an ape. Secondly, apes are still evolving! Given time, millions of years, they might evolve into more intelligent beings! Some people used to think black people in Africa were evolving apes, but not as far evolved as us. (No kidding! They really did! This was a justification for slavery.) Some species have been around for tens of millions of years without changing at all. Alligators and crocodiles, for instance, have been just the same since the time of the dinosaurs. So why didn't they evolve? There is a part of evolutionary theory called 'punctuated equilibrium' that explains why part of a population evolves and part doesn't. The way it works (according to the theory) is that a population of animals evolves to match their environment. Once they do, they stop changing because they are 'perfectly' evolved for their environment. Then some group of these animals leave that environment--for instance, the valley where they live is crowded so they migrate over the hills into the next valley. The environment there is different, so those few of those animals who are better suited to the new environment have an advantage, so they they begin evolving again until they once more reach 'equilibrium' with their new environment. So now you have two species, or subspecies, where before you had only one. In fact this was what led Darwin to this theory in the first place. He visited the Galapagos Islands where each island had a slightly different variety of turtles, birds, etc., because the environments of these islands were all a little different. Meanwhile those crocodiles, who have been in equilibrium with their environment for all this time, haven't changed much in 40 million years, because their environment hasn't changed!

They can't get past the ecological wasteland created by man.

My goodness, it seems there is a creator of sorts after all?

Science to the rescue! Ta Da

Ape, Christian, Atheist or other, for a good Sunday read check out the source I hit just now when checking out my use and spelling of Ta Da.

ps I've been working on my spelling ever since I got out of the rain forest.

Well some of the apes posting questions here are not that evolved

Evolution = evolving, which includes gaining the abilities of speech and reading comprehension.

Sir, it appears that penguins are here typing with their flippers, and they are by no means evolved from apes.

It looks like one did.

If you already have an example of one, why ask?

Feeling better?

Good!

One just did !!

Cheers Pete

It's spelled stoopit, dear.