An evolved species generally doesn't REPLACE its ancestor species unless
they're in direct competition for food, etc. See Richard Dawkins "The
Ancestor's Tale" -- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's "Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors" is good too. Hell, just read anything with "Ancestors" in
the title.

WHO'S DOWN WITH O.P.P. ?

Old Prehistoric Primates?

Spay, PLEASE! 15 yr. old rap music. Get with the times.

I must say i do agree whole heartlie with Raven i can't see us comeing
from a bunch of monkeys ,even if we do get a little wild at times ,i
think he makes a very good point,i hate the thought i may have come from
E.T

O.P.P = OTHER PEOPLES PENGUINS

thank you morena

thank you marilyn

So, raven....you've explained the human brain, but you didn't explain
how that brain got the way it did. The only way for something to grow
into what it has become is over time. Not overnight.
To believe that we just appeared here on earth is just not a likely
scenario.
Was the earth REALLY created in 7 days or has a book with no
particular author tried teaching that to us?
Science has proven humans never lived during the same time as the
dinosaurs, so where's the proof that humans just came outta nowhere.
We as humans are the champions of evolution and should be somewhat
proud of that.

Monkeys might not be able to make Jello, but they know how to use tools
just like us. Maybe not chainsaws and belt sanders, but hey, they are
smart little buggers.

"The DNA sequence that codes for beta-globin is roughly 50,000
nucleotides long; that is, along a given strand of the DNA molecule,
50,000 A's, C's, G's and T's in a particular sequence describe precisely
how to manufacture the beta-globin of the species in question. If the
sequences of humans and chimpanzees are compared nucleotide by
nucleotide, they differ by only 1.7%. Humans and gorillas differ by
1.8%, almost as little; humans and orangutans, 3.3%; humans and gibbons,
4.3%; humans and rhesus monkeys, 7%; humans and lemurs, 22.6%. The more
the sequences of two animals differ, the more remote (both in
relatedness and, usually, in time) is their last common ancestor.

"When ACGT sequences that are mainly active genes are examined, a 99.6%
identity is found between human and chimp. At the level of the working
genes, only about 0.4% of the DNA in humans is different from the DNA of
chimps."

-- Sagan & Druyan, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," p. 276

WOW this is cool. I have made people think. I like history and science
and this is great. lets keep up the topic and you'll see my answer to
this later.

You actually know the answer? Sweet. Fill us in.

Not that I know the answer. This is all about which way you swing. Do
you believe in the creation or the evolution theory. It is up to you....
As for me… you know later. I want to see how everyone thinks here first.

Raven has a very good theory for the human brain far outways the Apes
brain as far as knowledge. And if we were evolved from monkeys what
happen to them why did some remain as monkeys?

I do believe that a higher power did create us and it had to be someone
of knowledge in order for us to not only been given the knowledge but
the ablilty for that knowledge to grow.

yah what she said.

well said. As I say, this topics is all about which way you believe and
feel about....so lets see who else have something to say about this.