In fact, SIVs are so similar to HIV that if virologists were not anthropocentric in their classifications, HIV would probably be thought of as just another sort of SIV.Monkeys without tailsComparing the genetic sequence of HIV-1 with the various SIVs suggests that it evolved from an SIV found in chimpanzees (HIV-2 seems to have evolved from the SIV of the sooty mangabey monkey).
On the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, the former Test leg-spinner appeared to cast doubt on the theory of evolution by asking the dancer, Bonny Lythgoe – no me, neither – why, if humans had evolved from monkeys, hadn't monkeys managed to evolve as well.
Evolution does not state that humans evolved from monkeys anymore than monkeys evolved from humans.
Although the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is not zoonotic, it is thought to have evolved from similar monkey viruses that jumped to humans through the practice of hunting and consuming bush meat (monkeys).
"Zoo exhibitry has evolved" since the Monkey House opened, said Jim Breheny, the director of the Bronx Zoo.
Darwin's well-settled theory of evolution does not propose humans evolved from monkeys, but rather that monkeys and humans share an extinct common ancestor.
The question "If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" reveals a widespread and persistent misconception about the process and pattern of evolution.
So how should teachers and professors respond when confronted with the question, "if humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" Sometimes this and other questions about evolution are encountered in a fleeting context where there is not quite enough time to explain the full scope of evolutionary biology (Scott 2006)!
That question, of course, is "If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" This is sometimes phrased in terms of "apes" instead of "monkeys," but the technical differences between these groups of primates are irrelevant to the significance of the question being asked and the unspoken assumptions that underlie it.
