I've always heard that we evolved from them,but i never was really sure.
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We all had a common ancestor.  It just so happens that apes evolved differently to suit their environment than humans; we didn't evolve from each other, just divergently from our ancestor
629265
ewww..... are you saying...... uh! thats too gross to think about! \nbesides, we evolved from apes!
543812
You've got a few misconceptions there.  I'm going to assume you are really asking a question and not just fishing for agreement, so I'll try and straighten them out.\n\nFirst of all, IF man evolved from other primates, it would be more proper to say that mankind arose from -A- primate.  To draw an analogy, if you build a house out of lumber from trees, it doesn't mean there are no trees left in the world... only the trees you used to make your house are gone.  So it is perfectly plausible for monkeys to still be around even though something else might have evolved from them.  Populations become isolated and develop different traits all the time - try comparing someone from China, Iceland, and Africa some time.\n\nSecondly, I don't suspect any evolutionist would say that man evolved from monkeys.  Instead they would suggest that they had a common ancestor, and both man AND monkeys are different from that ancestor, just in different ways.\n\nAnd last is the question of transition.  And transition implies you're going somewhere.  Since none of us know what life will be like a hundred million years from now, it may very well be appropriate to say that EVERYTHING now is in a state of transition from what it used to be from what it will be.  Looking for 'half-fins' and the like is a straw-man argument, though there is certainly no dearth of vestigal organs and DNA around in most species, if you only look for it.\n\nI respect your desire to dispute the validity of evolution.  Most true scientists WELCOME having their theories challenged - it can only make them stronger and get rid of bad ones.  But if you're going to tilt at a windmill, make sure your lance is pointed in the right direction!
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It is thought that man came from ape like ancestors, not quite monkey's.  \n\nIt could take hundreds of thousands of years for macro evolution to occur.  Wait around that long, and i guarantee there will be NEW species.  So it is still happening.\n\nThe fossil record is not complete because fossils are hard to come by, not everything fossilises despite contrary belief.  In fact it's amazing we have as much info as we do.\n\nHow on earth does it take less belief to believe in a god, there is no evidence whatsoever for this!  At least evolution has enough evidence to fill several hundred warehouses, what do you have, testimony.. Yeah right, thanks, i'll keep to evidence, not faith to inform my decisions about the world around me.
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I don't think I've ever heard of them.
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Yes we branched off from their line over 2 million years ago so there should be considerable variations  (we walk erect).  At some point in history human hair may have been a way to attract members of the opposite sex (you forgot that males have long hair too).\n\nEvolution is not that quick to say that we are from apes, apes and us are from the same tree jsut as we are from the same evolutionary tree as all other mammals.  we just broke off from others at different times in the history of the earth.
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The word  evolution means to evolve to change. So if we  came from apes how come we still have apes, after all if man went with an ape the ape population would no longer be around, I've never heard of such utter rubbish in my life, we were created by a power beyond our understanding, just look around you, what do you see, take a seed, how does it grow into a tree etc etc. It only takes a bit of common sense.\n\nGloria(BSYA)
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It's a matter of debate. There are two broad theories regarding the origin of modern humans.\n\nThe most widely accepted theory is that we are all descended from a small population of Africans that originated around 120, 000 years ago. If that theory is correct then we are all descendants of Africans fairly recently.\n\nThe second theory is that  different human groups evolved from different pre-human ancestors. So people in south east Asia evolved from Homo erectus in that part of the world, people in western Europe evolved form Neanderthals and people in southern Africa evolved from local erectus populations there. Since then the various populations have commingled and interbred. If that theory is correct then there may well be people with little or no recent African ancestry.
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"Evolutionary chains" go a long way towards explaining the development of life, including human life, from simpler organisms, but we haven't gotten very far yet in explaining how the mutation and reproduction systems that natural selection requires  got started in the first place.  Some researchers, and by that I mean mainstream ones who fully accept evolution as the fundamental organizing theory of biology, have tried to work around this problem by postulating that the original lifeforms didn't evolve on Earth at all.  However, while this changes the debate somewhat, by allowing far greater timelines for life to evolve, it still begs the question:  OK, if life evolved somewhere else first, how did it get started *there*?  I think we are much better served by looking at whether life could have evolved here, under the conditions of the primitive earth as we know them.
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There are the theories about the flagellum motor and documenting bones in sedimentary rock could be misleading because the world isn't flat and what they used to base time on hardened rock can be duplicated within minutes instead of thousands of years.\n\n But, we do obviously have traces of vestigial organs and share genetic similarities with chimps. It is ridiculous to believe we simply sprouted from nothing. I do believe in evolution. Anyone whose been to a museum to see the slowly progressing posture of the caveman to human sees the sense it makes.\n\n Look at nature if things didn't slowly adapt we'd all die. There is no perfect medium because things are always adjusting to circumstance. And circumstance will never be the same. Evolution is in family genetics. It's in everywhere and everything. Survival of the fittest.
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First of all, we did NOT evolve from apes or other primates.\nThe most common blood type for humans is O.\nThe most common blood type for apes is B.\nThe most common blood type for chimps is A.\nApes and chimps have almost no occurrance of O in their blood types.\nIf we evolved from apes, wouldn't our blood types evolve with us?\nHuman beings adapt, not evolve. If we didn't have shoes to protect our feet, humans would eventually be born with thick soles on our feet. That's adaptation to our environment, and NOT evolution.\nOur mindsets, however, DO evolve, as in undergo total changes through the years. Our ways of thinking do change about every 10 years.
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Maybe not in the way we think they did. but yes i think they did. maybe back when there where dinosaurs. i think those are the closest to "dragons".
547033
We have been practice genetic in a prehistoric time when we didn't realize that we did. This is long before Medel's and his pea plants
280548
There are waay too many theories, and none of them can be proved. By "where do we come from" do you mean "were we created on Earth" or "where were we before we landed on earth" or "who the hell made us and why, and where the hell did he/she come from" ?\n\nAre we really human? who knows - we might be computer programs who think we are human, all the old texts of hinduism e.g. keep saying how everything is Maya (illusion). So who the heck knows?\n\nOur purpose in life? For all you know we could be little robots in a giant marketing program...!!! for some other species!!! Who cares? Main thing is: We get born, we got brains, full of curiosity and needs, we spend our whole lifetime trying to fulfill that curiosity and finally one fine day we stop breathing.\n\nHave fun with it, I guess. In the end (if there is anything afterwards), we are going to find out anyway - so why spend energy on it now? It's coming (the end of your consciousness), don't worry, a lifetime isn't that long, so do whatever feels right, if you were wrong you will find out :P
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yes i have heard this theory before and have seen several images of how humans have evolved since the beginning of time...from ape-like to our present state. when morphing the human body to a future look, we end up looking leaner and larger heads...like the typical "grey" aliens.\n\nwe may have mastered time travel and they could be studying the earth's past. of course they cannot make contact as it would affect their future.
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They didnt exist so the answer is no because they needed to exist first in order for the analysis to begin.\n\nWe know they didnt exist because science has demonstrated that we evolved to "humans" we were simply plopped on earth. We know the earth is billions of years old. We have found the remains of hominid life forms and we have shown the process of evolution. \n\nDividing this into macro and micro is silly and the uptiome of rationlization. Sorry, I too wish I was made in God's image.
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This is a difficult question to answer. There are fossil gaps, and gaps in our understanding of human evolution. But no one "missing link", especially one that we have a picture of. This is the fantasy of the media.