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Evolution, there has been continous discussion about this subject. Until the time of
Darwin, over 130 years ago, most scientists commonaly considered the living animals and
humans to be the evidence of one divine creator; God. However, Darwin claimed that the
apes are the ancestors of the humans, which is accepted as evolution, and since then the
scientists, religous comunities and the people, who have different thoughts about
evolution, are trying to find out which one is correct. Are we descendants of apes or
not? This question and the nonsense race between the two arrogant groups to justify their
thoughts seem to be last forever. Although there are some similarities between humans and
apes, like walking up-right on two feet and toolmaking, the differences such us
anatomical structure, language conceptual and genetics are the points that the
anty-Darwinists stress on.
The scientists have identified some modulation in human evolutionary history. The
development of the two-legged walking is one of the major similarities. Standing up-right
in an environment gives them the chance to scan the horizon for predators or let them use
their hands in order to carry something around.
The second major similarity is tool making. The invention of tool making has occurred
approximately 2,5 million years ago. Both of apes and humanlike creatures have used the
stones and bones in order to get food. That act was particularly to make the stones and
other objects handy rather than just finding useful ones. In their article " Up From The
Apes" which published in Time Magazine Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman informs
that "the invention of toolmaking - the purposeful craftsmen on stone implements rather
than just picking up handy rocks - and the transition to meat eating" (pg, 26, Time,
August 23, 1999) However, hominids were able to devise more sophisticated and diverse
tools rather than apes that remained at the same level. In addition to this skill of tool
making from the stones, they have also used animal bones as a raw material for making a
tool by scraping and smashing them. To illustrate, Asfaw's team found evidences about
scraped and smashed animal bones that were used nearly 2,5 million years ago. All these
craftsmen on both stone and bones show us the transition to meat eating as it is
mentioned in the past passage. If we consider the future route of improvements in the
toolmaking of the hominids we can say that there was not such transition period in the
given history of apes. This implies the differentiation between the apes and hominids.
Beside these, there are also another differences between the apes and humans. Firstly,
there is a huge distinction between their anatomies. The differences between the adult
chimps and people are not that unimportant. As the skills and abilities of the human
develop the structure and the functionality of its body changes parallel to them. The
main change occurs in the brain of the hominids, whereas the ape's brain remains almost
at the same stage of "thinking". Prof. D. Starck and his colleagues state that "The
skulls of human and chimps are quantitative only." On the other hand, apes partially
evolve like humans. For instance their skeletons, teeth and braincases have the same
anatomical structure that we have.
Secondly, the human conceptual uniqueness that have centered on language
conceptualization is different. Previously done experiments showed that the chimps are
notably unsuccessful in talking while human can talk. Actually this ability of talking
started the enlargement of the gap between ape and human. Words and their images in our
brain lead to different thoughts, which create the creativity in us. Since the apes have
no ability of talking they are lack of such devising and thinking skills.
Another major difference between the humans and apes is overall genetic difference. Even
the genetic differences are remarkably small Mary Claire King and A. C. Wilson have
observed some small differences under natural conditions. They have found that the
regulatory system is what exactly differs the human from the chimps.
"Much of the genetic system must be devoted to setting the timing of these events-to
turning genes on and off-rather than to the determination of specific traits. We refer to
genes that control the timing development events as the regulatory system. King and
Wilson therefore suppose that the primary genetic differences between humans and chimps
lie in this all-important regulatory system." Mentioned in "A Matter of Degree" by Gould.
(pg. 22, Ever Since Darwin, Gould)
To sum up, there are some dissimilarities and similarities between humans and apes but
they do not give the exact answer of the question "Are we descendants of apes or not?"
Plenty of hypothesis and researches are carried out to get it. The discussion between
groups sounds incredibly nonsense and seems like that will not stop forever. Not only the
scientists and experts but also the creationists and evolutionists are making people
confused about this subject. The truth is in the human mind. If we think logically we
will be able to find the answer. And people should not spend this much time, money and
attention on a subject, which is trifling like this crab.