I don't have much knowledge about the topic,but I want to know if it has been 100% proven that apes were evolved to humans?
Is there a possibility that humans were transformed into apes? I hear about the survival of the fittest principal and that offsprings carrying mutations which makes them more capable of adapting are the ones who survive and their species dominate,so is there a possibility that some humans might have gradually transformed into apes specially if they've been living in forests for example,where apes are considered to be fitter to live there?
Is there a possibility that humans were transformed into apes? I hear about the survival of the fittest principal and that offsprings carrying mutations which makes them more capable of adapting are the ones who survive and their species dominate,so is there a possibility that some humans might have gradually transformed into apes specially if they've been living in forests for example,where apes are considered to be fitter to live there?
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I agree!! This is a very common misconception about evolution, but at no time did Darwin or any other scientist ever say that human beings descended from apes.
No..it is not possible that human beings transformed into apes, either. There is a common trunk of the evolutionary tree of all mammals millions of years ago, but that trunk split into many different branches, each independent of the others, and human beings as we are today, homo sapiens, had other human ancestors, some of which (like Neanderthal Man) ended up as dead ends and did not survive, because of natural selection, while others continued to evolve and become more suited to the environment, had higher and higher thinking processes (again supported by natural selection; the more intelligent protohumans were more able to manipulate their environment with fire, using tools and the like) and they survived to reproduce, until we are where we are today. Evolution is an ongoing process that takes a very long time in higher organisms to produce different species and varieties, but at no time did anyone ever suggest that human beings evolved from apes, and that's important to understand.
No..it is not possible that human beings transformed into apes, either. There is a common trunk of the evolutionary tree of all mammals millions of years ago, but that trunk split into many different branches, each independent of the others, and human beings as we are today, homo sapiens, had other human ancestors, some of which (like Neanderthal Man) ended up as dead ends and did not survive, because of natural selection, while others continued to evolve and become more suited to the environment, had higher and higher thinking processes (again supported by natural selection; the more intelligent protohumans were more able to manipulate their environment with fire, using tools and the like) and they survived to reproduce, until we are where we are today. Evolution is an ongoing process that takes a very long time in higher organisms to produce different species and varieties, but at no time did anyone ever suggest that human beings evolved from apes, and that's important to understand.
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There is a lot of confusion in the popular mind about this. No, humans did not descend from modern apes (gorilla, chimps, orang, gibbons, or the lesser apes). We have a common ancestor, that's all. However, George Gaylord Simpson (who certainly could have been considered an expert on the subject) noted that anyone looking at our common ancestors would have called them "apes". We can trace common ancestors back to Ardeopithecus (the -pithecus portion meaning ape).