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To: From The Deer Stand
If man evolved from apes, why are apes still here? Wouldn't they all be man?

Because not all apes evolved.

Just because you make apple pie doesn't mean there are no more apples.

104 posted on 12/21/2005 7:08:21 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
Because not all apes evolved.

Well, not quite. Our primate ancestors all evolved, just into different things. Some evolved into humans, others into chimps, bonobos and gorillas. It is wrong to say that a population hasn't evolved -- all are continuously evolving -- just as its wrong to say that apes are any less evolved than we are, because evolution doesn't have a direction, and the real test is whether an organism is fit in the context of its environment.

121 posted on 12/21/2005 7:17:02 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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