Are we descended from monkeys?

Why the false claim since the majority have the education and intellect to live in reality?!

What are you so afraid of that you ignore the truth?!

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 but the Bonobo monkey has 98.2 per cent making it mans closest living relative.

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!

The first true hominid has been shown to almost certainly arrived in the Great Rift Valley but as a product of evolving from it's monkey and ape ancestry!

Australopithecus sideba is later than Australopithecus africanus, and shares many features with early Homo. So it is, if you must, the missing link between Australopithecus africanus and Homo habilis.

In many ways trying to deny these facts is worse than the creationinsts fantasies!

Both show a desire to ignore the truth!

The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!

Nice that Christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense!

But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy Christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!

Surveys suggest that 29% of American Christians are so extremist in their beliefs that they fall well outside of the accepted bounds of Christianity!

If you intend to post like this again please state which extremist sect you belong to so that GOOD Christians can disassociate themselves from you and explain why your sect is so at odds with Christianity!

Apes and Monkeys are groups of species that have come from a common ancestor. This common ancestor no longer exists.

It is however perfectly possible for an ancestor species to exist alongside its 'child' species. Evolutionary change is a response to a changing environment and does not need to happen at a similar rate. Sharks are the most quoted example of a design that just works.

Also, think of domesticated dogs. These have reached the point that they can no longer breed with wolves. But it does not follow that wolves disappear.

First of all learn the difference between monkeys and apes. The DNA of a chimp is very close to that of a human. It appears we have a common ancestor.

Personally I find evolving from the primate line much higher than coming from clay like Gumbi.

But modern monkeys HAVE changed since our common ancestor who was not exactly like either of us.

I think u need to google hominid species, both past and present.

When the families of humans and chimpanzees split up a few million years ago (about six hundred thousand generations), they would not qualify as humans. They were apes. Problem with that is that we also are apes. We are one of different kinds of apes.

The monkeys were already monkeys when the families of monkeys and humans split up.

Monkeys have continued to evolve alongside us.

If we didn't evolve from monkeys, yet we share a common ancestor, does that not immediately imply that this common ancestor wasn't a monkey but rather something monkeys have evolved from?

If evolution is a process in tune with time, some evidence of new species evolving from an inferior species would have noticed by men from the time man started thinking in their sensible intelligence. It may not be necessary we may witness some monkeys evolving to man in a span of 5000 or so years, but not a single new species have got evolved on the face of the earth to substantiate evolution is an ever continual process. It is a theory to understand man is the most superior of all living creatures and there exists a master plan in the science of creation. If ever the evolution theory is proving a school of thought to perfect accuracy, it is the creation theory. The sequence of creation is what the science of evolution has laid as the ladder of evolution and they are trying hard to explain the creator's command "Let there be.." in terms of their intelligence.

okay...some people answering here ought to be fined!

humans have common ancestry with APES, not monkeys. I'll let you learn why that distinction is important on your own time.

Did you catch that "common ancestry with apes" and not "evolved from apes"? That's an important little issue as well.

Plenty of evidence. In fact the split between old world monkeys and new world monkeys offers one of the corner stones that demonstrate natural selection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_color_vi...

First of all, not monkeys. Apes. More specifically, chimpanzees. And we've recently figured out that it goes back a bit before chimps. We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees. So they actually weren't what we see today. They have evolved since.