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Why did people disagree with Darwin when he said 'Humans evolved from Apes'?
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∙ 8y ago
Because back then people were pro-christian and his theory of evolution went against what The Bible said.
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It's true that his fiercest critics were frightened Christians, but Christianity does not try to assess why and when and how. The Genesis story is merely a myth from a Bronze Age tribe.Nor did Darwin suggest we are descended from the apes. All the evidence from his work onwards suggests the modern apes evolved alongside our hominid line from a common ancestor about 4-5Mya; but both groups are primates, and we could be said to be a rather highly-developed ape. As our knowledge of molecular Biology advances so the mechanism of evolution becomes clearer, but details like our own ancestry are vague because Quaternary land animals left few, and fragmentary, fossils. It's said that when "Origin of the Species" was published one British bishop's wife said something like, "If it's true let us pray that no-one finds out". The real fear of course was perceived loss of power by the Church: if people thought the Bible was not all it was cracked up to be, then neither was the Church as a business.
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How does Charles Darwin's theory explain the existence of modern people?
Darwin explained that humans, like every other modern organism, evolved from a series of predecessors, and through these predecessors shares ancestry with all known life on Earth.
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No. Dinosaurs were extinct by the time humans evolved.
Who might disagree with the use of ddt in africa?
people that understand that DDT is a problem to the environment, humans and animals
Why were people so outraged by Charles Darwin's theory?
Back then, people were very religous and they thought that Darwin was saying we evolved from monkeys, but really, his theory proved that we evolved from the same common ancestor as monkeys, but took different paths. Darwin was very worried about producing his theory in "The Orign of Species' becaus of his beloved wife, Emma Darwin who was Christian and would be hurt by the very idea of it. 'The Origin of Species' was published in November 1859 at age 50, and sold 1250 copies in a single day. He was ridiculed and mocked.
What are you evolved from?
Well people say that humans evolve from monkeys but life on Earth has evolved through billions of years through small microorganism's. Also humans didn't evolve from apes, we evolved from a common ancestor but we just evolved in a different way to apes due to environment e.g. food, predators etc
Humans evolved in what era?
The first homonids (animals from the same genus as people) evolved about 3 million years ago. Our species, Homo sapiens, evolved about 200,000 years ago. All of the time since the dinosaurs died out 65.5 million years ago is called the Cenozoic Era, thus humans evolved in the Cenozoic.
Scientists who argue that modren humans evolved from asingle population believe that humans came from the continent?
They believe that the evidence point to this group of people living in Africa.
Where black people born with tails?
Yes, it is scientifically proven that some people have been born with tails. Because many people believe that God "made" us, a little amount of people believe that humans evolved from chimpanzees. I, however, believe both. That God made chimpanzees, and they evolved by having babies with defects and within millions of years the defects became normal for us humans. Yet, some humans are born with defects, and to the chimps, they are normal. Nobody has ever shown proof that we evolved or that we were made by God.
why do people think humans evolved from monkeys?
Instead, monkeys and humans share a common ancestor from which both evolved around 25 million years ago. This evolutionary relationship is supported both by the fossil record and DNA analysis. A 2007 study showed that humans and rhesus monkeys share about 93% of their DNA.
How did Darwin apply Malthus's ideas about humans populations to the theory of evolution by natural selections?
more babies being born that people dying
Are there people who disagree with the celebration of thanksgiving?
Nobody, why disagree?
