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Why have the monkeys stayed as monkeys?
- Thread starter paarsurrey
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You might as well ask why so many other species have remained much the same for much greater periods than monkeys and primates in general have done so.
Why Haven't All Primates Evolved into Humans? | Live Science
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Augustus
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They haven't (if we look backwards anyway)
As to the present: Why is any creature in its currently evolved form in its currently evolved form?
They have not stayed the same but have diversified into many species. Many of them have unique qualities and abilities that other monkeys lack.
None of the monkeys that existed 20 million years ago still exist. They have *all* changed or gone extinct.
Also, please learn the difference between a monkey and an ape. Humans are apes. So are gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. Those species are NOT monkeys.
exchemist
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Nope, quite wrong. Who says the monkeys "stayed as monkeys"? They didn't, in fact.
All creatures are subject to evolutionary pressure all the time. The monkeys have carried on evolving since their line of ancestry split from ours, just as our ancestors did.
So the prosimians evolved into lemurs and lorises, and the lesser apes evolved into siamangs and gibbons, after they split off from the line leading to Homo.
First, abandon this concept of destiny -- there is no evidence supporting this idea.
The "monkey" model is able to live and reproduce within a specific environment. It evolved to fit that environment.
As long as the environment remains stable, why would expect the monkeys to stop living and reproducing?
As long as they still "fit," what would cause them to disappear?
There is no intention in evolution. It has no goal or purpose.
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RabbiO
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Job security.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Or a lack of ambition.
Bunch of slackers and welfare queens...
paarsurrey
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Yes, flies remain flies and the mosquitoes the mosquitoes, they don't become honey-bees. I agree with one.
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paarsurrey
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Can one give a summation and focal point in the link for ease of the members, please?
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paarsurrey
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cataway
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its really very simple
24'' Then God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, domestic animals and creeping animals and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God went on to make the wild animals of the earth according to their kinds and the domestic animals according to their kinds and all the creeping animals of the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.''
consider it a law of God
24'' Then God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, domestic animals and creeping animals and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God went on to make the wild animals of the earth according to their kinds and the domestic animals according to their kinds and all the creeping animals of the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.''
consider it a law of God
However, they can become *quite* different types of flies and mosquitoes (which are, after all, a type of fly).
paarsurrey
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But monkeys have not changed much roughly and opted to get extinct, as they were no more needed in the truthful G-d's scheme of things. Right, please?
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If only that actually agreed with the facts. And, if only the notion of 'kind' wasn't so vague it can't be used in any exact discussion.
Wrong. They *have* changed...some of them quite a bit.