when did "prehistoric apes" came into existance? And when did prehistoric man first come into existance?
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http://www.becominghuman.org/\n\nYou'll get a lot of the story here - nice site.\n\nMonkeys are not apes - apes are chimps and bonobos and gibbons and gorillas and orangutangs.  They're primates, though, for sure.
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Tarzan:Disney,USA,1999\nGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes:UK,1984\nTarzan, the Ape Man:USA,1981\nTarzan and His Mate: USA,1934\nTarzan & Jane: USA,2002\nTarzan the Ape Man:USA,1932\nAnd there are hundreds more. I've given you the site wit hall the titles.
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In 1856, bones of an unrecognizable hominid turned up in Germany's Neander Valley. This early human and others like it—sturdy, large-headed individuals—came to be known as Neanderthals. Despite a century and a half of study and debate, Neanderthals remain an enigma. Were they our ancestors, or an evolutionary dead-end? Were they assimilated into early modern (Cro Magnon) populations, or were they wiped out en masse in a Pleistocene genocide? "Neanderthals on Trial" investigates this long-standing mystery.\n\nOriginal broadcast
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That's a great question, esp. since creationists have tried to co-opt evolution to an extent, by saying "Oh, God just took longer than the Bible says" and other claptrap.\n\nI'm not a creationist, but am more interested in the new info on Neanderthals (I majored in Anthropology). Can you add some details to the question and give links to articles? I'd really like to read them! I'm rather behind the times regarding new discoveries, and the Discover Channel's programs about it are SO questionable! I've got to read more!(I'm serious).\n\n***********\n\nThanks---for the links! Can you believe some of the whacko ideas people have? You'd think it hadn't been 150 yrs. since Neanderthal was first found!
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Humans didn't come from apes- but apes and humans share a common ancestor, if you go back a few million years. The difficulty that people have is that they mistake the name of something (which is fixed) to the actual organism. A species is a dynamic flow of genetic material. What we see today is a snapshot of that, in this time frame. When we find a fossil, that is another snapshot from another timeframe. If we found enough fossils we would be able to show the movie of humans and apes diverging from a common ancestor. Given the conditions that are necessary for fossils to form, and the relative rarity of hominids (the group that humans and apes belong to) this is not likely to happen. \n\nYou can see genetc change by looking at the way we breed dogs. Dachunds and Saint Bernards are both Canis lupus, but a male dachund would find it near impossible to mate with a Saint Bernard. If all other dog breeds were wiped out, they would speciate, evolving into different species. One could argue they are well on the way. Inheritance can be observed by the similarity people share with their parents. \n\nAdam and Eve, sadly, are a myth. What race would they be?
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Evolution isn't something that happens instantly, it is a slow process that takes a long time. Humans actually have only been around for a few thousand years and "civilized" humans have only been around for 10,000 years. In fact, hominids (upright walking apes that are all extinct except for humans) have only been around for less than 2 million years. We are evolving slowly but by the time we radically change, we will not notice because the change would have been very very slow.
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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
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Scientists believe that man may have used fire as long as 1.8 million years ago (Homo Erectus).\n\nI don't mean to be a grammar stickler, but you can't "domesticate" fire, "domesticate" can only be applied to wild animals.
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I could never do this topic justice in the space provided, but here it goes. :)\n\nHomonids have been getting 'smarter' for almost 15 million years now, and this trend certainly hasn't been limited to a single species.  For example, there were several homonid species in the genus Australopithecus whose evoltionary progress rivaled that of our earliest ancestors in the genus Homo (i.e. H. habilis).  The most notable species among the australopithecines were A. garhi and A. africanus.  Like early species in the genus Homo, both of these australopithecine species were bipedal and had relatively large brain sizes (i.e. when compared to earlier australopithecines). For these reasons (and several others), it was originally thought that at least one of these species might have given rise to the genus Homo.  However, genetics and fossil evidence have suggested that H. habilis did not arise from these australopithecines.  And recent findings in the fossil record suggest that these early humans and late australopithecines may have actually co-existed!  Cool, huh?  Even more surprising, is that aout the same time these species began to co-exist, the australopithecines became extinct.  This has led scietists to speculate that early humans might have driven the australopithecines into extinction by 'out-competing' them or perhaps even by killing them off.\n\n'Traits that make us more capable as a species' may be much more important than you think.  Specific traits like the opposable thumb and bipedal ambulation (which frees up the hands and allows them to be used for other tasks than just walking) are crucial to the development of intelligence.  Anlytical skills, such as tool-making, have driven the development of human inginuity and intelligence, and they wouldn't be possible without these key physical traits.  Even today, we can see that other species who share these physical traits are starting to show early signs of intelligence.  For example, both chimpanzees and gorillas have basic tool making skills.  Give them another million years or so, and they might be just as smart as we are today.. assuming that we don't kill them off as well. ;-)
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First of all science hasn't proven that man evolved from apes. If we did evolve from apes ? How come there are still apes in the jungle? How come all the apes haven't changed to Human beings. How come no one has ever stumbled upon an ape in the process of transforming into a human. \nYou know what . The reason man is so brainy is because he was created in the image and like of God. As a matter of fact science has shown that the average man does not use 90% of his brain capacity.\nGod expects you to do somethings for yourself, use the brain that he has given you to find cure to diseases and solve earths pressing problems instead of questioning his existence.\nPerhaps you should take a trip to Mars or Pluto, may be you might find some fellow ape-men, or sub-species of \nape-men .Wake up man!
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You have got to be kidding me. I have a favorite 'prehistoric water-dwelling animal'? I believe in a young earth anyway, so they're not prehistoric. I guess maybe Leviathan.
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Technically dinosaurs were not even known to have exist until the first evidence was discovered in either the 18th or 19th century. In the book of Genesis note: not to be interepted literally!! It states ( after the life in the sea,animals on land) Sorry I can't quote exactly however; look at all the animals that exist. The Bible would be a LONG book!
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I think it is possible that there may be some type of undiscovered ape out there... There have been other instances of scientists finding an animal that was previously unknown or thought extinct. I live in a rural area near a river bed where there have been several claims of Bigfoot sightings. My neighbor and I have heard several very loud blood curdling yells/screams over the years that we have no idea what animal could make them. My Mom, sister and nephew swear that they saw a huge hairy man-ape looking thing on the way home from my house last summer. I asked them what they were smoking but all three of them swear they saw it. If there is one around here I hope to catch a glimpse of him one day.
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Not all Christians take the bible literally.  Catholics accept evolution.   So what are Neanderthals to me?  As of the latest news - possibly some ancestors because it is believed that Cromagnons and Neaderthals might have bred together before the Cromagnons completely took over.
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Actually, bacteria weren't the first organisms to inhabit our earth.  Simple-celled prokaryotes that pre-dated bacteria have been discovered in the oldest fossils ever recorded.  It's believed by some that life even existed before these prokaryotic cells, however fossils of these events do not exist (the oldest fossils date 3.5 billion years ago, and are of prokaryotic cells - bacterial fossils started showing up dating only 2.7-3.0 billion years ago).
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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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Try www.google.com you ll find many sites on the prehistoric time of reptiles