Topic: Evolution
Quote: #3 - Can anyone explain to me why no other apes, monkeys or chimps have evolved into a higher species?
Response: 1. From what I have learned, different locations breed different surroundings. Human ancestors were migratory pack animals. Where they went, they encountered new types of pressures, causing them to change over time.\n2. Different selective pressures. Different areas can lead to different pressures. Some mutations also occured etc. Things like that.\nEvolution doesn\'t HAVE to occure non-stop if there is equilibrium. Not everyting is always changing, as far as I learned. Barring mutations that cause significant changes over a lot of time, Apes, Chimps, Monkies wouldn\'t really change all that much. There\'s no real pressure to do so. They are already well-adapted to their surroundings.\nActually however, there really isn\'t that much difference between some of the great apes and Humans. Take the Bonobo Chimps, for example. They have 98% the same DNA as Humans. They are the closest to HOmo Sapien.\n3. Niches. Related to above. Crocs, for example, don\'t evolve that much because they are a very successful animal design and they found a place in which they can thrive for generations with little to no changes. Other animals can do the same.\n4. As well, humans didn\'t come directly from Apes. We all evolved from a common ancestor who did all of the above.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html\nHere is a time line of hominid species\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html\nEvolution doesn\'t lead to a higher species, as well. There is no hierarchy in nature. Each species is equally as well "evolved" depending on it\'s environment etc.\nA Human is no more evolved than a Chimp or better than a Chimp. Evolution doesn\'t lead to progression, but merely change. It\'s not getting better toward some high standard. Humans just like to think so.
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