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Why isn't my Great Great ...Auntie Acient Ape relatives showing up on my Ancestors family tree?

Is it because the Ancient apes DNA has no connections what-so-ever to that of humans?

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1. They disinherited the entire lot of us for being so stupid as to think that we evolved. They didn't want anything to do with such stupidity.
2. Sure why not. I doubt I'll change your belief so go ahead with that. I know better, you don't. I'll just feel sorry for you a little and get on with my life.
3. Because no records or family trees go back that far. If they did, you would be able to trace it all the way back to the first humans...is there a reason why Creationists can't trace their family trees back to Eve? Could it be that she never existed?
4. Actually, humans are apes. If you go back 150,000 generations you will find some Australopithecines. Most of us do not have such detailed records. Nevertheless, the DNA of your primitive ancestors is in you today.
5. Uh, 99.9% of your DNA isn't good enough huh?
6. Seriously? Chimpanzee DNA is being sequenced as we type. It's a helluva good match; why do you think we do testing of medication on chimps and rhesus monkeys? And by the way - it's being done by Baylor College of Medicine - a BAPTIST university.
7. may it be because your fancy family tree gets somewhat garbled somewhere around the Fathers Pilgrims' times? you know what i mean.. no one likes those unimportant or malicious parts of the family tree. that's the reason why all family trees of noblemen of Europe included someone from Jesus' vicinity, and all ancient kings had a Sun god down the family tree. family trees in their victorian anachronic logic do NOT depict exact geneaology but rather brushed and combed version of Who is who. They say nothing about bastards, and extramarital offsprings generally. .. let alone so called "lesser" races, whichever that may be in your culture.
8. Yes, there's no connections whatsoever. The entire scientific community is just having a goof on the rest of us.
9. Because the theory APE ----------> MAN is the greatest LIE of ALL TIME!
10. Well, I'd be willing to bet almost any amount of money that you can't trace your family tree in an unbroken line for more than 15 generations on both sides of your family. Once you provide proof of your family tree, then we'll discuss why your ape ancestors aren't on your family tree. Maybe it's because your family tree either needs pruning, or resembles a twig instead of a tree.
11. It's because you haven't traced it back far enough.
12. IT does not state humans evolved from apes, merely that we share a common ancestor, also this question is an insult/flame
13. No, it's simply because nobody was keeping records at the time. Even if written language had been invented, the first proto-humans would have had more important things to think about ..... like, how to stay alive for 5 more minutes on these darned open grassy plains where everything is trying to kill us. And even if anybody had been keeping records, The Split must have been highly acrimonious. If there had been so much as the faintest glimmer of hope of ever patching things up with the Arboreals, the Terrestrials would have changed their minds. Is it hard work being so dense?
14. Explain fossils.
15. Geez, I don't believe your Great Aunt of 2 million years ago could communicate. Even the Oral tradition goes back only 6,000 years ago. Oldest fossil found: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aqFpdCaWxzl4 Then there is the Mitochondrial Eve, the most recent common matrilineal ancestor from whom all living humans are descended, who lived lived around 200,000 years ago.
16. How far back can you trace your family tree? I know I can only go back about a century. My father-in-law's family can go about 140 years. Can you go 300 years? How about 3,000 years, when the vast majority of the world was illiterate and so complex written ancestry records weren't routinely recorded by most of the world? How about 30,000 years, before writing even existed? All currently-living people can trace their ancestry back through mitochondrial DNA to a single woman that lived around 130,000 years ago. She wasn't the only woman in the world at the time; she's just the only one for whom all people analyzed seem to have descended from. The rest of the lineages either died out, or failed to produce any daughter at some point (mitochondrial DNA only passes from mother to child). And there were other non-human hominids before her. To get back to the Homo/Pan split, that's roughly 5 million years. To get back to the first great apes (Family Hominidae), that's going back at least 15 million years, perhaps longer. Your family tree probably doesn't even scratch the surface of how far back you would have to go. And how do we know all of this? DNA analysis of humans and apes is one of the cornerstones of the proof. If our DNA wasn't so similar, the entire notion of shared human ancestry with other apes would completely fall apart.
17. If you think earth is only a few thousand years old, it is of no use trying to explain that.
18. Probably because they are embarassed to be associated with you.
19. They ARE in your family tree as shown in your DNA. About fifty years ago, when it was first noted that apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes, but humans have 23, the creationists subsequently pounced upon that as evidence against the evolution of humans from a common ancestor with the apes. The evolutionary scientists, however, using evolutionary theory and an understanding of genetic modification, proposed that two of the chromosomes must have joined together in the line that led to man from the common ancestor, thus reducing the chromosome number. That prediction has been verified with the results of the recent human and chimp genome projects. It was found that human chromosome 2 is the result of the joining of two chromosomes that have homologues in the chimp. The decoding of the genomes revealed that human chromosome 2 has a stretch of non-functioning telomere coding in the exact place it should be if the two chromosomes had joined in the human line from the common ancestor with the apes, and there is also non-functioning coding for a centromere in the exact location where the extra centromere would be as it occurs in one of the homologous chimp chromosomes, as well as a functioning centromere in the same location as in the other homologous chimp chromosome. Long before the genome projects verified it, this article contained an example of the proposition that two of the ancestral chromosomes joined together to form human chromosome 2. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/215/4539/1525 These sites explain the finding of the genome projects. http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chromosome_2 http://www.genome.gov/13514624 http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom.html No creationist pseudoscientist could make a prediction like that.
20. Do you really expect that you could trace back through that many people? I suppose you've been able to trace your family tree back to Adam and Eve?