• Question: how can evolution have worked because for macro evolution to have happened more than 1 baby animal would have had to different because if there were monkeys and a monkey gave birth to a human then there would have been no one for the human to have bread with so it would have just died out?

    Asked by bethany bob to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie, Theresia on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      That is a great question
      I am not sure I can fully answer it, it is likely that species gradually changed so there was a period when there were a number of early human species that were similar enough to breed with each other, we know that modern humans and Neanderthals interbreed for example and some humans today may have traces of Neanderthal DNA!

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      Theresia Mina answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Hi Bethany that’s a challenging question that the pro-evolution team often struggles to answer! But now there are more and more evidence of the “in-between” species (a lot in the BBC news recently), and so I think it all happen very very slowly over the time and in a rather random, stochastic fashion. I agree with Duane, the inter-breeding does happen, as long as there are some subspecies that co-exist within 1 geographical area and are still very closely related to each other.

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      Andrew Philp answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I guess the idea with evolution is that species are gradually changing over the course of thousands of years, not quickly changing between species. So rather than there being clear differences like a monkey and a human, you would have lots of species between these two.

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