Richard Dawkins giving a schooling on evolution! It really is quite simple...
With due respect, we did not evolve from apes. We evolved contemporaneously alongside the spes. All primate species evolved from tree dwelling insecticide from the Triassc era. It was not one jump from insecticide to Homo sp. Rather it was a multitude of experiments and trislsnd and errors. At the time that modern humans Homo sapient sapien) entered Europe, there were st least 5 species of Homo occupying the world, including Homo neanderthalendis. Survival depends upon adaption to changing environments and competition for resources. The other 4 species were just not adaptable enough and we won out ( hard to say for how long though, we are quickly driving ourselves toward ectinction).
As to your original supposition that just because one species is around, another can't co-exist. Depends upon whether they directly compete with one another for those essential resources
I hope this has been helpful and s little enlightening? Don't take any wooded banana? Lol
...and people wonder why humans are so violent. Just look at all the studies of our cousins. They all say that apes and chimps etc. are very violent and murderous.
EXCEPT for bonobos! Bonobos are female-led (as opposed to chimps) and every social interaction begins/ends with sexual contact. They're amazing animals.
We share with apes a distant common ancestor.
Ohferpetessake....there are a bunch of types of apes, we are an offshoot of one branch. As if there is only one kind of Anything......
Rebellion.... the smart ones had to leave.
i really do believe we evolved from ape like creature that apes also came from, but on the other hand, i wonder, did we screw up mars and come here to start over ?? its not that far of a journey, and FTL isn't really needed... just saying
While there is genetic evidence that Apes and Humans are related (having a common ancestor), what evidence do you have to support your concept that we came here from Mars?
@dahermit oh i was just being funny, i will admit it could have happened, we know mars used to be like earth is now with water, oxygen but weather i really believe we came from mars, i am really do not believe that, i was just being funny about the mars part. I do actually believe we evolved through evolution here on earth.
@cobra3282000 Its an interesting point though. I'm no astrobiologist but I understand that Mars may have been habitable. The asteroid belt could be remnants of a destroyed planet (I guess our forebears could have been good at that looking at our propensity for the same here). Maybe we are just heading inwards. Watch out Venus!
If Protestantism evolved from Catholicism, why are there still Catholics.
If (some) Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?
We have an ancestor in common with apes. Our species is an offshoot. When the tree of life sprouts a new branch, the other branches do not necessarily die out.