Why did humans come from monkeys?

Answer 1

There are a few critical distinctions between humans and apes:

Humans walk upright, apes are generally knuckle walkers (they walk on all fours but on the knuckles of the hands).

Humans can hold their breath. No ape can do that - this is to do with the way the tubes in the throat are arranged and it also means that it possible for humans to talk - the downside is that food can "go down the wrong way".

Humans have much less hair - they are practically naked.

Unfortunately, these important differences are not the kind of thing that fossilise well - apart from the walking upright. The well known Lucy fossil was an upright walker, but, of course, it's difficult to explain why a creature started walking upright apart from the vague "there was an environmental advantage".

There is a theory that explains pretty much all of these; that early hominids spent a period as "aquatic apes" - this would explain why we can hold our breath, lost our body hair and - more tentatively - why we walk upright. The only problem with the theory is that there is no fossil evidence to support it.

Another answer--The evidence is that humans and apes shared a common ancestor, not that they evolved from apes.

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The difficulty is tracing the lineage stems from not just body details failing to leave fossils. The Quaternary land animals generally - including our ancestors - left far fewer good fossils than sea creatures. Notably, our own species is poorly defended physically from animal attacks or extreme weather, and poorly equipped bodily to hunt and kill live prey. We had to develop an intellect and vocal skill some orders of magnitude higher than those of any other animal so we could overcome these weaknesses by brain rather than brawn.

Answer 2

Humans and the other non-human apes evolved from an common ancestor that was also an ape (although not one of the modern species of ape). The mechanisms by which this occurred include reproductive variation, differential reproductive success, genetic drift and divergence.

Answer 3

Man did not evolve from apes: apes and men evolved from a common ancestor.

Evolution is caused by the mutations that naturally occur in DNA in all species over time and the process of natural selection, or survival of the fittest. It is normal, in all species, for DNA to change slightly, which changes the creature slightly. If this change is good, the animal will be more likely to live long enough to successfully breed and pass its DNA on to the next generation. If the change is bad, the animal may not live long enough to procreate and the change dies out. The environment the animal lives in and many other factors may also influence how useful the mutation is.

So, in the case of human beings, our ancestors changed in one way while apes changed in another. We slowly grew larger brains, more dexterous hands, less body hair, and began to walk upright over a long period of time, with these and other positive traits like intelligence being passed down from parents to their children.

Answer 4

Humans do not come from modern monkeys; rather, humans and monkeys share a common ancestor that diverged approximately 16.5 million years ago.

For the record, the fossil record shows that the earliest humans began to diverge from proto-chimpanzees (which despite their similarity to monkeys, are actually a species of ape) around 6 million years ago.

Answer 5

because is your mum

Answer 6

over 5million years ago