• Question: If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes?

    Asked by I <3 physics to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 23 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by xdddd.
    • Photo: Natt Day

      Natt Day answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Hi,

      We didn’t directly evolve from monkeys and apes. From fossils we can see that about 8 million years ago ourselves and apes had a common ancestor– but after that our evolutionary trees break away. In that break, apes and monkeys continued to evolve one way and we then started evolve another way– which is why we don’t look exactly the same and why we all still exist as different species. 🙂

      Natt

    • Photo: Dwaine Vance

      Dwaine Vance answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Man evolved from a different lineage of apes i.e. homo erectus

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