[NTHockey]

The point of the question is hippos supposedly evolved from dinosaurs, and there are no more dinosaurs. Horses supposedly evolved from Eohippus, and there are no more Eohippi. Yet, man is supposedly evolved from ape, but apes and man coexist.

Consistency, please.

[allmendream]

The point is that there is no requirement that the progenitors of a species die off in totality upon the differentiation of an offshoot.

Just as when Americans descended from Europeans, there was no requirement that Europeans all die off in totality for Americans to separate and grow distinct from them.

Similarly all the Romance languages of Europe developed from Latin, but they changed as time went on and people developed new accents, words, phrases, and rules of language. Latin is a “dead” language, but there was no requirement that it die out completely and not develop into Italian.

Similarly the apes that exist now were not the same species that existed way back when, just as Italian is not the same language as Latin.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[abclily]

Sooooooo, my question addresses the similarity of apes and some people. This similarity would seem to reinforce the evolution theory. Sooooooo, are some people more evolved than others?

And, actually, aren’t there still some dinosaur cousins around? And don’t they coexist with hippos?