• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Humans are apes. We evolved from them and we are still them.

    Edit: I think you mean to say chimps, not apes. We came from a common ancestor with chimpanzees. We were never chimps.

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      The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes are a taxonomic family of primates that includes […] orangutan[s]; Gorilla[s …]; […] the chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, of which only modern humans (Homo sapiens) remain.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

      Apes [are] collectively [called] Hominoidea […] There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons […]; and the [great apes …]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

      You’re right in that humans are apes taxonomically. What I was trying to contradict was the misconception according to which the type of apes we see today got somehow “frozen” evolutionary some time ago, but that some of their descendents evolved to become human.

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        1 year ago

        These pedantic Lemmy nerd fights remind me of how I learned so much on early reddit reading similar arguments.