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All mammals have a long and complex lineage. The first mammals branched off from reptiles about 200 or more million years ago. Apes evolved from an ancient group of possum-like tree mammals millions of years ago. These mammals diversified 65 million years ago after the death of the dinosaurs, branching off into all the different mammals of today. One group of mammals took to the trees, developing long tails, opposed thumbs and flat faces, eventually becoming apes.

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What did Charles dawin believe in?

man evolved from apes


Do you believe that a man came from apes. why did not?

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.


Who said you evolved from apes?

darwin This was in his work 'The Descent of Man.'


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


Did Darwin claim man evolved 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.


If Darwin believed we came from apes then where did apes originate from?

Charles Darwin believed that apes evolved from earlier, more primitive species, which in turn evolved from even earlier species. Ultimately, all mammals, including the apes and humans, evolved from the first mammal species, which in turn evolved from earlier species, and so on back to the beginning of life on Earth.


Why are there apes if humans evolved from them.?

evolution - apes continued to evolve as well. We came from all mamals, reptiles etc... each species continued to evolve into its own lines. All dogs came from the selective breeding from wolves, and wolves continue to exist.


What prehistorical creature did apes evolve from as cats of today large and small evolved from the Sabre toothed tiger?

Cats did not evolve from sabertoothed tigers. Rather, sabertoothed cats evolved from other cats. Modern apes evolved from miocene apes, which were somewhat similar. Miocene apes evolved from some lemur-like primate, or perhaps something like a lorise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loris


How was mankind created evolution or biblical?

All the evidence indicates modern man evolved from earlier apes.


Can apes ever evolve into some human like creature?

If you believe Darwin's theory you evolved from one but it's just a theory and subject to opinion


What evidence is against humans evolving?

If we're evolving and evolved from monkeys or apes then why is there still monkeys and apes. We did not evolve from apes or monkeys. We branched off a common line. Humans did not evolve from apes. Humans and apes had a common ancestor . Apes evolved in one direction and we evolved in another. We probably looked a lot alike at first.


Did humans evolve from animals?

Yes, humans are classified as animals and have evolved from earlier primate ancestors over millions of years through the process of evolution. The theory of evolution explains how all species, including humans, have descended from common ancestors through natural selection and adaptation to their environments.