If we evolved from apes then why are there still apes?

Shouldn't they all have evolved since we all basically came from the same region?

Why did some stay apes and some turn into humans?

Really, it makes no sense.

 

Do you ever bother to google your questions before asking them? Just wondering.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat02.html
1. Did we evolve from monkeys?

Humans did not evolve from monkeys. Humans are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn't evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees. Scientists believe this common ancestor existed
5 to 8 million years ago. Shortly thereafter, the species diverged into two separate lineages. One of these lineages ultimately evolved into gorillas and chimps, and the other evolved into early human ancestors called hominids.

 

My goodness, Spooky. We shared an earlier, common ancestor.

 

We have a common ancestor with everything, including bacteria and carrots.

 

This is a common mis-conception amongst those who do not understand evolution at all, I think that it comes from the idea that evolution is survival of the fittest which it is not!

Here is an article if you are interested.

To say we are more "evolved" than our hairy cousins is just wrong. (See how long you last naked in the Congo Heartland, and then tell me who's got the evolutionary upper hand.)
https://www.livescience.com/32503-why-havent-all-primates-evolved-into-humans.html

 

If we have evolved from stupid people to smart people like Neil Degrasse Tyson then why are there still stupid people?

Shouldn't everyone have evolved since we all basically came from the same gene pool?

Why did some stay stupid and some turn into brainiacs?

Really, it makes no sense.

/sarcasm

 

lol....we didn't evolve from apes? what did we evolve from then?

 

So what did we evolve from then?

You have a picture of this common ancestor that wasn't an ape because I've never seen one.

 

No, it doesn't come from that at all.

If some apes changed into humans then why didn't all of them?

That would seem to say that we didn't evolve from apes.

 

No, Spooky, you still don't get it. We did not evolve from apes. Apes and Humans evolved from a common ancestor to both of them.

 

I suggest you take a minute to type that question into google and learn about the details, but here is the crib note version.

Humans and Apes had a common ancestor from which both evolved, but they became separate lines of animal life over time. The mutations and changes that led to this are the reason we have multiple ancient version of Homo in the record and more are discovered regularly. Evolution is a complex and very drawn out process which is heavily effected by many, many factors from location and environment to resource competition and predation....you will need to drop the dogmatic blinders to learn about this, but I fully know you do not want to.

 

This makes zero sense.

 

Why are you asking a scientific question on a political forum. There are countless much better sources for this information you could easily search out, both actual scientific forums and pre-written answers to your precise, highly unoriginal, question.

But you knew all that already didn't you?

 

Yes, it does sense. That you do not understand it is no one else's problem.

 

Sorry dude, but you're massively confused. Humans themselves being apes, share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, also apes, and they share a common ancestor farther back with gorillas, which are again, apes.

So if humans didn't evolve from apes, what did they evolve from? Post less, read more son.

 

What is this mysterious ancestor that we have no records of?

Seems pretty set in stone in science to me.

 

All apes species, INCLUDING ourselves, share a common ancestor.

 

We didn’t come from apes, but we share a common ancestor, Ardipithecus.Theory says that we split from Pan to Homo about 9 millions years ago.

 

Read this link. It has images of genuine fossils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils

 

Which is what?

Do you have any fossilized record of this ancestor because we can sure track the changes from apes into humans.

Even so, if we shared a common ancestor then why didn't they all evolve?

And what happened to them?

Why did some turn into apes and the others into humans?

Why didn't they all turn into humans or apes?

 

you don't say. all mammal species share a common ancestor as well. the ancestor of concern is the most recent one. what was the most recent common ancestor of humans and other extent ape species?

 

humans are apes.

 

Try studying EVOLUTION to learn how environmental CHANGE results in ADAPTIONS in order to SURVIVE in a DIFFERENT environment.

Our ancestors had to adapt to an environment that changed from forest to savanna.

 

All life on the planet shares a common ancestor if you go back far enough.

 

I am sensing a serious lack of qualified debate from the left here.