Stupid Creationist Arguments 36: Why Are Apes Not Still Evolving in to Humans?

lol Evolution is a Fact?? ok so why did it just one day stop why are apes not still evolving in to humans?

digitaljackass in a Youtube comment.

Picard and Riker facepalm

Copyright of Lone WolfHumans didn't evolve from apes, we are apes! Domain: Eukaryota, kingdom: Animilia, phylum: Chordata, class: Mammalia, order: Primates, family: Hominidae, genus: Homo and species: sapiens.

But thats not what he meant. This is basically a "if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys" argument. Evolution is not a ladder! It is a tree! A branching tree. Populations for one reason or another split, the two new populations evolve, adapting to different conditions. Eventually the two populations are so genetically different that they if a female from one populations and a mail from the other find each other and mate they could not produce fertile offspring. The two populations have speciated; evolved into separate species. As they continue to evolve they will eventually not be able to produce offspring together at all and eventually not even able to mate.

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