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A student draws this model to show how humans evolved from ancestral primates. What are the pros and cons of
this model in regard to the theory of evolution? Explain how you'd make it more accurate. To create a scientifically
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Answer 1

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The model shows that humans involved from ancestral primates in an easy-to-understand format, but it oversimplifies the evolution. The straight line suggests that humans replaced their earlier ancestors. But in reality, the human species branched off from their ancestors. The model should look more like a branching tree.

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Answer 2

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The model designed by the student is useful to explain in a simple way the question of the evolution of the homo gender (our gender), mainly in basic education, but it may seem inconsistent at higher educational levels.

Humans and chimpanzees, according to the theory of evolution, descend from a relatively recent (about 7 million years) common ancestor.

These same species, as well as lemurs, baboons and all other primate species, share an ancestor who lived longer. Likewise, there is an even older ancestor that originated primates, bats, whales and all other groups of mammals .

The fact that chimpanzees have a DNA very similar to ours (about 98.5% similarity between code sequences) is because the successive evolutions from this common ancestor were not very drastic, besides the fact that they are in a branch more close to ours from the moment of separation of evolutionary lineages.