Richard Dawkins: Why are there still Chimpanzees? - Nebraska Vignettes #2
Richard Dawkins clears up the misunderstanding of Evolution that is all too common: If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees? Dawkins explains that we DID NOT...
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- People often ask me, "If we’re descended from chimpanzees, how come there are there still chimpanzees?" Well, we’re not descended from chimpanzees. We’re both descended from a common ancestor who lived there, about 6 million years ago. That common ancestor then produced two branches: one of which went to us, humans, and one of which went to chimpanzees, branching further to produce bonobos and common chimpanzees. We are all cousins. We are not descended from chimpanzees. More distantly related are gorillas. They share a common ancestor with both us and chimpanzees. That's the common ancestor between gorillas and humans and chimps. So humans and chimps are a natural group, which are related to gorillas, cousins of gorillas. And a...
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- People often ask me, "If we’re descended from chimpanzees, how come there are there still chimpanzees?" Well, we’re not descended from chimpanzees. We’re both descended from a common ancestor who lived there, about 6 million years ago. That common ancestor then produced two branches: one of which went to us, humans, and one of which went to chimpanzees, branching further to produce bonobos and common chimpanzees. We are all cousins. We are not descended from chimpanzees. More distantly related are gorillas. They share a common ancestor with both us and chimpanzees. That's the common ancestor between gorillas and humans and chimps. So humans and chimps are a natural group, which are related to gorillas, cousins of gorillas. And a...
