• Question: Is it true that we were originaly from monkies.

    Asked by ConorH to Annette, Dave, Jaine, Julio, Mike on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Julio Gutierrez

      Julio Gutierrez answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      We actually came from an common ancestral that had originated both we and the monkies. Let me explain this, by common ancestral by mean a single animal that had evolved in a group of animals that used to stay on the ground and another group that use to live in the trees canopy. After some time, those two groups of animals did not interact between each other anymore and they evolved separately. So we are originated from the group that used to stay on the ground, while the monkies from the group living in the trees canopy.

    • Photo: Jaine Blayney

      Jaine Blayney answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      No, humans share a common ancestor with gorillas and chimpanzees. This common ancestor was from around 5-8 million years ago. Different species, with their own progression/development routes, came from this. Scientists recently looked at human DNA and chimp DNA and found that they were 95-99% similar. You might like this site: http://humanorigins.si.edu/education/introduction-human-evolution

    • Photo: Annette Neill

      Annette Neill answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      I think some people believe this because there are so many similarities but no, I don’t believe we did

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