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No. There was a common ancestor that gave rise to both man and the apes.
That we came from monkeys or apes, we came from a common ancestor from apes.
An 'ape' is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily, which includes lesser apes like the gibbon, and the greater apes, such as chimps, gorillas and humans. This kind of relation shows that all of these share a single common ancestor. This ancestor is what we evolved from.
Man did not originate from apes per se, rather we share a common ancestor with them. This is a common misconception about evolution. Humans evolved to fit their environment, apes evolved to fit theirs.
no. man did not come from apes but we do have a common ancestor with them. Both created by the one true God!
A:There was no man who proved that the first man was a monkey, as this could never be proven. Man descended from a common ancestor to the monkeys and apes, but that is a different matter.
Yes. We're not just descendant from them, we are apes (and therefore must logically also be descendant from apes). Of course we're not descended from any modern species of ape: we share a common ancestor with the other modern apes, which would also have been an ape.
An 'ape' is any primate belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea, and this includes humans, so we 'are' apes, along with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans. All these species though have a common ancestor.
This is something that is often misunderstood. Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor. Humans did not 'come' from apes.
That modern humans evolved directly from modern apes. This is quite incorrect because both modern humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor - the most recent common ancestor was between 5 and 7 million years ago. Each followed its own path of development, both becoming more complex over time but in their own ways.
As far as the higher apes are concerned, Orang-utans shared a common ancestor with the others about 14 million years ago, the ancestor of Gorillas with the other apes was about 8 million years ago and the ancestor we share with Chimpanzees was about 5 million years ago. Don't forget, since those times, all apes have been evolving at their own rates in their own environments.
No, although they have a common ancestor