And why did some apes evolve into man, while other apes remained apes.
Exactly. And if it’s the survival of the fittest, then how come the apes didn’t die out after man came on the scene? After all, that is what supposedly happened to all the missing links between apes and men.
Global warming??? Seems that’s the default reasoning for everything these days ....
Global warming??? Seems that’s the default reasoning for everything these days ....
you know, its just like moving out of the ghetto into a better neighborhood
Are you serious?
Two populations of ancient Great Apes live on each side of a great river in Africa.
The apes on the west side are all fat, dumb and happy swinging from the branches of their trees, eating their fruits & nuts, and having a good old time with the Mrs.
But those poor suckers on the east side of the river -- well the climate changed, the land dried up, the trees died off, and now those sorry apes had to climb down out of their trees, and either learn to make it on the ground or die.
And, most of them died.
But a few found a way, and the more they worked at living on the ground, the better things got for them.
However, slowly, slowly they changed -- stood more upright, walked on two feet, used their hands for clubbing and carrying stuff back, so they could have a good time with the Mrs.
Now, after many, many generations those poor suckers on the dry side of the river no longer looked like, or smelled like their fat-dumb-and-happy "relatives" still up in their wet-side trees.
So if, by chance, it ever did happen that the male of one side, ahem, "bumped into" a female from the other, well, you know... she just didn't look right, didn't smell right, didn't eat the same food, and being around her actually made him sick.
So, horny as young males are known to be, in that case he just didn't feel like it, and couldn't do it.
And that precise moment in time is what scientists call "speciation".
Does that answer your question?
And why did some apes evolve into man, while other apes remained apes.
The apes that remained apes continued to vote democrat?
Some became leftists and they stayed apes, while the conservatives ones evolved.
Come on Cowboy didn’t you see the movie 2001? Some aliens from Jupiter dropped a “monolith” on earth and the apes who touched it evolved into humans the ones who didn’t...well we’re doomed to eat bananas forever once bananas evolved from moss.
For the same reason that there are many varieties of dogs but there are still wolves.