IF WE EVOLVED FROM MONKEY SO WHY THEY DON'T EVOLVED...
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Explanation:
With all the 'monkeying around' that can go on in the playground or even in the office it seems we could easily be directly descended from monkeys, but our evolutionary relationship is actually much more distant.
"This is a question often encountered by evolutionary biologists," says Dr Paul Willis, palaeontologist and Director of RIAus.
"But the question itself reveals a couple of fundamental misunderstandings about evolution and how it operates", he says.
Firstly, humans did not evolve from monkeys. Instead, monkeys and humans share a common ancestor from which both evolved around 25 million years ago.
This evolutionary relationship is supported both by the fossil record and DNA analysis. A 2007 study showed that humans and rhesus monkeys share about 93% of their DNA. Based on the similarities and differences between the two types of DNA, scientists have estimated that humans and rhesus monkeys diverged from their common ancestor 25 million years ago.
Similarly, the fossil record has identified ancestors common to both humans and monkeys, such as an as yet unnamed primate fossil from Myanmar found in 2009 and dated as living around 37 million years ago.
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this is because of darwins theory of survival of fittest ,
and actually we evolved from a species of apes not monkey