Why Aren't Chimps Still Evolving Into Humans?
Summary
This is a question that many people ask. If we evolved from chimpanzees, why aren’t the chimpanzees extinct?
That’s not an accurate question, because chimpanzees did not evolve into humans. Human beings are cousins of chimpanzees, not descendants from them.
We and they go back to a common ancestor. That common ancestor was not a chimpanzee or a human. That common ancestor evolved in two different directions – one into a chimpanzee, the other into a human.
Keywords: chimpanzee, humans, evolution, Richard Dawkins, theory of evolution, Charles Darwin
