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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 10 years ago

Serious question that requires thought....?

If we evolved from chimpanzees how come there are still chimpanzees??

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's a stupid argument people use to support creationism. I believe in God but I also believe in evolution as the two beliefs Can coexist... Fish evolved from other fish that are still around. The gorilla and monkey and chimpanzee probably share one common ancestor that they all branched off of, as did cats, dogs and so on and so forth... Take man for example. There is proof (and I mean evidence you could touch with your hands) that man evolved in several forms (homoerectus, homosapien, neanderthals, etc.)

  • 10 years ago

    Maybe Some Chimpanzees Didn't Evolve?? And Then The Humans Had Childeren Then The World Got More Populated?? :D

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Actually, it's a remarkably silly question that Creationists who should know better have been asking (and we have been answering) for a very long time.

    Modern-day humans and modern-day great apes have a common ancestor about 6,000,000 years ago.

    We diverged from the branch that would eventually become the great apes that long ago into a branch that went through a variety of hominids to arrive at modern humans, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, about 50,000 years ago.

    The contemporary great apes went through a similar evolutionary process, with a variety of ancestors along their own evolutionary chain.

    Although we are genetically close to modern chimps, we are also quite different.

    If there were sufficient numbers of chimps in the wild to continue their branch successfully (doubtful), they would continue to evolve...But not into human beings.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • 10 years ago

    The question that I ask is how can we start off from being a single celled organism to a fish to an ape or etc.?

    The bing bang theory sounds ridiculous.

    Look at this world, its nature is created so perfect the sun is distanced so perfectly from Earth. There has to be a creator.

  • 10 years ago

    Sooo many answers already, but here.

    It's because some groups of our common ancestor migrated to other parts of Africa, therefore adapting to their environment accordingly and becoming a form of early humanoid, whereas others stayed where they were, evolving into apes. Pretty simple, really.

  • 10 years ago

    Go ahead and give the second response "best answer" because we're like cosins to the chimps.

  • 10 years ago

    we didnt evolve from chimps, we evolved from a common ancestor.

  • 10 years ago

    If you look at our face carefully, we look like an ape, for real.

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