A closer look at human and ape evolution.
a question that revealed just how little he understands about evolution. It seems he’s not alone. His tweet got almost 50,000 “likes” and 13,000 retweets. It’s safe to assume a lot of people reacting to Allen's post also wanted to know the answer to the question that he posed as a statement: “If we evolved from apes why are there still apes.”
“A lot of the genetic stuff that makes us what we are is the same stuff that makes other animals what they are," says Cofran. "It just kind of gets deployed differently.” In short, we talk about apes the most when we talk about evolution because they are our closest living relatives today.Cofran points to another common misconception — namely, that humans are not evolving anymore. But all animals on Earth are continuing to evolve, and that means humans are, too.
Still, that doesn't mean that thinking of evolution in linear terms is entirely without merit, argues Ronald A. Jenner, a biologist at London's Natural History Museum, in.
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