• Question: how come other animals didn't evolve like apes ?

    Asked by kayleigh to Anthea, Chloe, Kevin, Michel, Sean on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Anthea Lacchia

      Anthea Lacchia answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Because evolution doesn’t happen in a straight line. Think of a tree, with different branches. Different groups of animals branch off the tree in different directions and evolve differently, so very different outcomes exist. This can happen thanks to geographical isolation for example, where one group is cut off from another and evolves in a different way depending on the environment it faces.
      Sure, there was a common ancestor for every species you can think of, even very different ones, but apes (including humans!) are just a branch off that tree. Hope this helps! 😉

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