There is a great difference between humans and animals: What caused that evolution?
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Dont listen to cowgirl, like most creationists wackos, she hasn't even bothered to research the word theory.  It is used very differently in science and the vernacular.  Evolution is a theory the same way heliocentiicity (the idea that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around) is a theory; no one has ever seen it happen.  Or, atomic theory (that things are actually composed of little particles called atoms; no one has ever seen one.  Evolutionary theory is proven JUST AS WELL as other major theories in science.\n\nThe difference in humans and other animals is mostly in their brain - it's size and structure.  It allows us to do more complicated things, like complex languages.  There is no major qualative difference between humans and other primates... there is a quantitative one.\n\nNo one really knows what caused the brain to grow so much but the answer may lie in development genes, such as the Hox genes.  These regulation genes can have a tremendous influence on size and apperance from a few simple mutations.  \n\nCowgirl: make sure you give up on all the benifits of science since you choose not to understand it.  No more TV, cars, radio, medicine, lightbulbs, cures for disease, etc.
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Evolution happens to populations of organisms not individuals, and populations of humans across the globe are continually evolving. Evolution is a change in gene frequency in a breeding population over time - that's it. Of course you need a $100,000 lab to show most of it but it happens all the time. Many people see evolution only as 'speciation' - that's just one possible end point. Speciation might occur, for example, if enough gene frequencies change in a population so that the individuals look different or smell different from most, or a catastrophe geographically isolates one group - something divides them from others. The isolated group no longer breeds with once similar populations, the differences in gene frequencies between them accumulate. Over eons of time, at some point, this population may become a new species, no longer capable of breeding with its parent species; or it may become a subspecies - related but biologically isolated; or a sister species; or part of a circle species - there are many levels of relatedness. And then it happens again and again - populations continually dividing and changing - driven by an individual organism’s success at parenting fertile young. The genes that made a parent a success where they lived and who they lived with are passed on to the next generation. Genetically, we are what worked, when and where our parents made us. \n\nEvolution does not mean we are improving or getting better. Evolution has no bias about good or bad, and no direction; you either fit your environment well, move with it, change when it changes, or you die out. So evolution works quicker for organisms with short generation times and large populations (like insects or bacteria). It's no wonder that the insect and bacterial world is chock full of subspecies and sister species. Human evolution is a very ponderous affair because of our 25 year generational time. Ordinarily, it may take hundreds or thousands of generations to see some significant changes - there are many exception of course - but don't expect to see any differences between humans unless you look on a scale of millennia or more.
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According to the theory of evolution, which is strongly supported scientifically, we are not decended from apes, monkeys or chimpanzees.  We do, however, share a common ancestor with them.  Humans evolved from that common ancestor to become what we are today, and the others evolved to become what they are today.  However, there are other viewpoints on this matter, which, though not scientifically supported, are in wide belief in many cultures.  These ideas are based on religious belief systems. These belief systems contend that humans have NOT evolved, and were created just as we are today by a diety or dieties.  Whether this is true or not, is a source of much debate.
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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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I don't understand that either because I sure don't.  Animals may be less evolved than we are but they still have emotions and feelings and can show them.  To me, I would rather be around animals and appreciate them more than I do most humans!  They are more simplistic than we are and don't have the same egos we do but they are equal in every way and deserve respect, compassion and love just as we do.  They are a living breathing spirit just like we are and need to be treated as such.
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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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"In biology, evolution is the measurable change in the heritable traits (allele frequency) of a population over successive generations. Evolution is ultimately the source of the vast diversity of the biological world. Over time, it may result in the origin of new species (speciation). Contemporary species are related to each other through common descent, products of evolution and speciation over billions of years." translation organisms change over time due to adapting to their environment and selective breeding, though natural selection plays the largest role in evolution, in natural selection the animal that is best fit to live in  and survive in its environment will be able to live on and reproduce. Also known as "survival of the fittest"
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because humans are animals\n\n...not plants
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Human beings are animals, so trying to differentiate them is silly (or arrogant).  Besides, this isn't a question, it's a (long-winded) statement.
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Humans and monkeys evolved from the same common ancestor.\nNow humans and monkeys are seperate species. \nComparisons between chimp and human DNA show the two species share 95 per cent of their genetic material.\nMonkeys aren't going to change into humans - this has nothing to do with Darwin's theory on human origins.
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About 1%\n\nNearly 99 percent alike in genetic makeup, chimpanzees and humans might be even more similar were it not for what researchers call "lifestyle" changes in the 6 million years that separate us from a common ancestor. Specifically, two key differences are how humans and chimps perceive smells and what we eat.
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Exactly. Humans did not evolve from primates. The theory of evolution is full of holes.
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Sometimes the line between evolution and christianity is blurred. Evolution is not just the theory that we came from apes. Evolution is just the theory that all creatures can evolve over time its like is a bear is mainly living in one environment and then moves to another that is evolution. The theory that man came from apes should not be taught nor the theory that man was made by God. That way nobody is offended. But Evolution should be taught.
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One answer might be that they have gradually changed, or evolved,over a very long time to suit the places they live in and the food that is available to them.\n                 In the 19th centurya scientist named CHARLES DARWIN (1802-1882) put forward a theory, which he called 'natural selection'. to explain how these changes might happen.\n              According to darwon, individuals animals and plants sometimes have qualities that help them to survive.For example,in agreen forest, a green bug would pribably survive longer than a brown bug,because its appearence would help it to aviod being seen amd eaten.\n       The individuals that survive the longest are likely to have more babies,and will pass on their useful qualities to them.Over a very long time,each species will very gradually develop all the most useful qualities for surviving in its own habitat.
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According to current theories of macroevolution, humans did not descend from apes, monkeys, or any other species currently in existence.  A large amount of research (genetic comparisons, fossil record, comparative taxonomy, etc.) suggests that humans and modern apes had ancestors in common.  \n\nOf course, we would probably consider those common ancestors to be more like apes than humans.  (Perhaps apes would consider them to be more like us?)  This is not unexpected.  Different members of a species can and do differentiate along different paths.  Some paths are pretty straight: they don't change much over time.  Some paths wind all over the place.  The paths that survive are those that are best adapted to survive in their particular environment.  Humans are so successful as a species because we've developed the capacity to adapt to almost any environment on Earth.  That's evolution!\n\nIf you want to learn more, check out the link below!
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YES.....\nIt is my unscientific opinion that people who love animals are more evolved that those who do not.
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because when people evolved they adapted to their environments to survive and since the environments were different everywhere, everyone looked different.