Quote Originally Posted by Balaam View Post
darwin is da shiznit!!

charles darwin believed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory he called natural selection.

i don't really believe that man evolved from apes, only that while man and apes were both present on the planet man adapted to his environment, the taller, stronger and smarter males survived and continued to breed with the most fertile females. over time man evolved through natural selection to be taller, stronger and smarter men while apes did as well
Quote Originally Posted by Skirata View Post
Man evolved alongside apes.
Humans share an ancestor with Lemurs. All varieties of lemur are native to Madagascar. Some of our mutual ancestors got trapped when the great island split off the African coast. We took the evolutionary path to humans, and they followed a different path to become the lemurs we see today. (I did a whole big report on lemurs back in high school )

Likewise, ancient primates that were separated would follow different paths to become the gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, etc that we know today. We did not evolve from apes, but we share common ancestors before diverging onto different evolutionary paths.