[metmom]

Monkeys fill an ecological niche, where there is a “demand” for monkeys, nature has provided a “supply”. The “demand” for monkeys up in the trees did not go away just because some monkeys came down from the trees and started living on the ground.

What a bunch of gobbly-gook.

So there was a *demand*? And it came from where?

And what if something hadn't filled it?

And if the niche was *filled* then why did other primates etc that live in trees evolve?

Didn't someone tell them that the *niche* was filled and couldn't take any more species?

Nice personification of nature there. Gives evos something to replace God with.

[allmendream]

So your suggestion is that for a new species to arise all of the ancestral species must die off?

That is a bunch of gobbly gook.

The “demand” for monkeys, is that OBVIOUSLY, monkeys do quite well living up in trees. If a single species of monkeys moved down from the trees and started adapting to life on the ground; does that mean that suddenly the monkeys living up the tree lost their means of livelihood?

The first airplane designers were bicycle makers. Did the advent of airplane manufacturing eliminate the need for bicycles?