New Theories of Evolution
To answer people who say, "Well why can't we go down to the zoo and watch monkeys evolve into humans?" I say this... monkeys are and were never in the "homo" genus. Chimpanzees and Homo sapiens split along the evolutionary line some 3 - 5 million years ago. Monkeys and humans are on totally different evolutionary trails, and who's to say God didn't intend it that way? It's physically and biologically impossible, evolution or not, for a monkey to turn into a human today, yesterday, or a million years ago.
To be more specific, chimpanzees, closest to humans by DNA, are class: mammalian; order: primates; primate superfamily: Hominoidea; family: Hominidae (orangutans); subfamily:Homininae (gorillas); tribe: Hominini(chimpanzees);and subtribe:Hominina (humans). Humans fall under the before-noted subtribe of Hominina and genus: Sapiens - distinctly apart from chimpanzees. There are so many other branches in the tree of evolution mentioned above that it would take a book to list and explain them all.
Under the subtribe of Hominina (where we humans are) we have the genera Homo (humans), Paranthropus (extinct), Australopithecus (extinct), Sahelanthropus (extinct), Orrorin (extinct), Ardipithecus (extinct), and Kenyanthropus (extinct). (Interestingly, it is Australopithecus that some people think survived and became what we now know as "Bigfoot" or the "Abominable Snowman".)
Note that all that's left under our subtribe of Hominina is us, humans, Homo sapiens. No chimps, no apes, no other Hominina. Just us. We survived. So far at least. Six other Hominina are extinct.
Now here are my two theories. One is that Homo sapiens arose at more points than just in Africa. I suspect that Homo sapiens evolved either simultaneously here in North America OR that humans migrated from North America to Europe. In fact, it has already been discovered that another type of Homo sapiens called Homo sapiens idaltu (see side notes) existed in Africa (although it's now extinct). Humans are now referred to Homo sapiens sapiens in order to distinguish between the two. Why couldn't Native Americans have been the first, or among the first, Homo sapiens? There are theories growing even today that we have far underestimated the amount of time Native Americans have been on this continent.
Secondly, I don't think this is the end of evolution. Something will come after us. Or some things. More Homo species. I leave it to you science fiction writers to imagine what will come after Homo sapiens sapiens. But someone will.
Source: Wikipedia
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Published by Sandra Essary
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14 Comments
Post a CommentAn interesting take on evolution and theology. Thanks!
Great and interesting article,thanks Sandra Essary
Fascinating article, well written. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting article, Sandra. (^;^) I read recently the human genome project has proven every single human being living on the planet today all share a common female ancestor who lived in Africa about 140,000 years ago. A growing body of fossil and DNA evidence indicate that modern humans arose in sub-Saharan Africa and began migrating, starting about 65,000 years ago, to populate first southern Asia, China, Java, and later Europe.
I misspoke when I said that "chimpanzees, closest to humans by DNA, are class: mammalian; order: primates; primate superfamily: Hominoidea; family: Hominidae (orangutans); subfamily: Homininae (gorillas); tribe: Hominini(chimpanzees);and subtribe: Hominina (humans)." Chimps are not now, nor have ever been, in the subtribe: Hominina. That is reserved for humans only.
Oops - hi again - no criticism of your article was meant by my comment! I was just adding my 2 cents on the theory of evolution! Love ya. You did a great job.
I do now and will always believe in God. Just want to make that clear. Why monkeys don't turn into people is explained in paragraph 2. Love ya, Sheryl.
When someone tells me they believe in evolution and not in God because they only believe what they see, I say "Have you ever seen an ape turn into a man?"
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Really. Didn't know that.