were we really monkeys years back.. if so these days why monkeys do not give birth to humans?
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>>>>>were we really monkeys years back.\n\nNo. Humans were never monkeys, nor were any of our ancestors monkeys.\n\nHumans and other apes share a common ancestor with the monkeys, but that ncestor was not itself a monkey.\n\n\n\n>>>if so these days why monkeys do not give birth to humans?\n\nI must be misundertanding that question. It can't be as silly as it sounds.\n\nMonkeys don't give birth to humans because they are monkeys. What other answer could there posibly be? The offspring of an organism inherit its genetic structure and hence its gross physical appearance. Monkeys are genetically monkeys hence their offspring are genetically monkeys.\n\n_____________\n>>>>chimps and humans ...would not be able to procreate...\n >>>>because of their different sets of chromosomes.\n\nThere  is no scientific basis to that claim whatsoever. Nobody knows whetherhumans and chimps are interfertile because nobody hs ever tried to find out.\n\nDiffering chromosome counts has never prevented two species reproducing. The world is full of animal species with differing chromosome counts that are perfectly interfertile and regularly interbreed.
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Did really humans?  chimpanges?  I have not a clue.\n\nI would suggest, you may have evolved from under a rock.\n\n.
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If you are going to comment about evolution, at least do yourself the favor of actually learning what it is.\n\nHumans did not evolve from the species of apes and monkeys that you see today.  Instead, all current primates (including humans) evolved from a common ancestor.  That was an "ape" that lived thousands of years ago, but it didn't look like the monkeys and gorillas you see today.\n\nGo to a museum, read a science book, or watch the Discovery channel sometime.  They all show you how humans evolved.\n\nIt doesn't take faith to believe in evolution.  It just takes the ability to open your eyes and look at the evidence.
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For the last time, we didn't evolve straight from monkeys. We had a common ancestor that was wiped out because of the forces of evolution.
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I agree; humans and modern monkeys share a common ancestor.  Homosapien sapien (what *we* are) actually directly descended from homo erectus.  \n\nAll the scientific evidence backs this common descent up, btw.  We share a common morphology with chimps as well as a common molecular make up, which indicates that we share a common ancestor.  How else would you rationally explian it?\n\nFurthermore we share malfunctioning genes.  One in particular is a gene that prevents our bodies from producing vitamin C.  It seems that far back in our line of descent one of our distant ancestors was able to produce vitamin C.  This production was halted by a mutation - a mutation that all modern chimps share with us.  This is powerful evidence for a common lineage between chimps and humans because the best explanation is that this mutation was passed on through our evolutionary heritage.  \n\nThe creationist answer is, quite frankly, retarded.  They would have us believe that an all knowing and all benevolent entity created humans and chimps with a gene that produces vitamin C AND a gene that inhibits it's production.  An *intelligent* designer would just not have put in the genes for producing vitamin C in the first place!
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I will never ever believe that!!!! Think about it,if that were true, then why aren't the apes turning human now. hmmmmmm
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*Sigh* This question has been asked so many times, it's almost sad. Here's the deal: we did not evolve directly from monkeys and apes. Humans, monkeys and apes all evolved from ONE COMMON ANCESTOR. This common ancestor has since died off. So, let's put it this way: monkeys and apes are our distant cousins, rather than our distant brothers and sisters. That make sense?\n\nHere's a better question: if man DIDN'T evolve from monkeys and apes, why are we 99% genetically similar to them? \n\nThank you, by the way, for stating monkeys AND apes in your question instead of just monkeys. Strictly speaking, we are more related to apes than to monkeys. And yes, there's a difference.
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look at the monkeys man if we all evolvoled from them then why are there still monkeys, were they to stupid to evolve with us or what? nope i say we are as we always were if not why havent we evolved farther?
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Far too huge a subject to get into here, check the link for information.\n\nJust to clear up one common misconception: Man did not evolve from monkeys.  Men, the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans), and monkeys all evolved from common ancestors millions of years ago.  Men and monkeys diverged more than 10 million years ago, and men and the great apes diverged about 5-8 million years ago.
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I believe that humans and gorillas are genetically incompatible, meaning they can't make babies.\n\nHorses, zebras, and donkeys can still make babies because they used to be the same animal, but have not changed enough to be genetically incompatible. Give them another 50,000 years or so and they will lose the ability to make inter-species babies.
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A) the number of offspring-\nEven if you didnt know this, you could figure it out by the process of elimination, going from monkeys to apes (even including humans)- Primates have gotten bigger (apes are bigger in general than monkeys) apes (and humans) live longer than monkeys, apes (and humans) take many more years to raise children than monkeys, and apes (and humans) dont sexually mature for a very long time compared to monkeys- That only leaves (A).  If you think about it, apes and humans generally only have a single offspring at a time, at most one a year-thats about as decreased as you can get.  Of course, Elephants may only have one offspring ever, but they arent primates.
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I don't belive in evolution. If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys today?
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No, its not true there's a misconception when we say we come from monkeys what it means is "humans and monkeys have a common ancestor based on the DNA sequence so its in correct to say we come from monkey.
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Monkeys are anthropoid primates.  Their closest living relatives are the tarsiers.  The next closest relatives are the strepsirhine primates like lemurs, bushbabies, and lorises.\n\nThe anthropoid/tarsier group may have been derived from a group of small tarsier-like creatures called omomyids.  The primates as a whole were probably derived from lemur-like animals.  The plesiadapids were lemur/rodent-like animals in the early Paleocene.  Modern primates likely came from a subset of plesiadapids.  This may have been true for flying lemurs and tree shrews as well.  A tree shrew like creature may have also been the ancestor of this group.
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They never did.  So many people have asked this question and it is just ridiculous.  What you really should be asking is can someone please explain evolution to me.  Evolution does exist.  If you don't believe it you are ignorant to the world around you.  Monkeys exist independent of humans.  They aren't some under-evolved human.  Biologically we are related to them in that we are both priamtes and in the case of chimps both hominids.
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Ummmm Last time I checked humans have never evolved into monkeys.  However, there has been a lot of scientific research indicating that apes may have evolved into humans over very long amounts of time.   Evolution is something that occurs over an extremely long amount of time... if humans started living in water now- in thousands of years we could live like a fish. Do your research and don't judge people on what they do or do not believe. That isn't very Christian-like is it? Christians are supposed to be really nice and respectful aren't they?  The Bible could hold some truth, or it could possibly just be a way of setting good morals. No one knows for sure if God exists, and thats a fact.  I think you need to do some research.... I mean good grief- you thought we evolved into monkeys. I think you're a little backwards.  haha!
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That's the point, men didn't evolve from monkeys and apes. Men, monkeys and apes all evolved from a common ancestor.\n\nThink about this way: If you took 100 people from Earth and placed them on an outbound spaceship to wherever. Then you took another 100 people from Earth and placed them on a another outbound spaceship to a different wherever. If you were to wait a few hundred thousand generations, do you think the descendents of those two colonies would still be members of the same species?\n\nIf you take in consideration all the different possible adaptations that would potentially be needed to survive in whatever locations the two colonies eventually relocated to would drive the two groups of people possibly diverge greatly from one another. With each successive adaptation would direct the potential needs for future adaptations to new future environments.\n\nHowever, this is exactly what happened to allow for the diveregence between monkeys, apes and humans. Whatever the common ancestor was between us, that population was divided -- be it geographically, as was the case in the hypothetical scenerio I supposed above, or otherwise -- and these two different populations collected different adaptations based on the restrictions put forth by their different environments. These differing adaptations continued to collect to the point that eventually different species were produced.