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08-08-2005 9:57 AM

As you may already know, I do believe evolution has occurred; however as of right now there are two questions that are eating at me.
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If we split from a common ancestor with chimpanzees approximately 5 MYA, how is it we have changed so much and chimpanzee's have not. If I understand it correctly Lucy was the first hominid species that was able to walk upright, but looked very much like a chimpanzee. Why such the drastic change in one and not the other?
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So called "Living Fossils" is my next hiccup. A small list below:
Coelacanth
Nautilus
Sturgeon
Tuatara
Wollemi Pine
Triops
Army Ants
Cockroaches
Bathynomus
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How is it that these species can go virtually unchanged for millions of years?
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