RE: Humans evolved from monkeys
March 9, 2016 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2016 at 12:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
No, it isn't. A prosimian is no more a monkey than you or I. They are a prosimian. In the same way that a lemur and a baboon are not the same thing, or a chimp and a human. We all share a common ancestor, we have shared attributes, we're all primates...........only one of them, however, is a monkey..the baboon.
To bring it into more contrast, to say that we're arguing over definition would be to say that claiming that the sun and a light bulb were different is only arguing over definitions. Perhaps, trivially, true...depending on the specifics...but substantially and demonstrably false by any reasonable or scientific standard. That asshat, let's recall, was "schooling" people on evolution™.
@Oldbaby, a source? Try wiki, for starters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate
Particularly the diagram, first section after the introduction. You'll notice that there aren't any monkeys in our branch of the "tree". Even "modern day" prosimians are distinct, genetically and ancestrally, from those prosimian ancestors we shared....themselves divided into subgroups.
To bring it into more contrast, to say that we're arguing over definition would be to say that claiming that the sun and a light bulb were different is only arguing over definitions. Perhaps, trivially, true...depending on the specifics...but substantially and demonstrably false by any reasonable or scientific standard. That asshat, let's recall, was "schooling" people on evolution™.
@Oldbaby, a source? Try wiki, for starters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate
Particularly the diagram, first section after the introduction. You'll notice that there aren't any monkeys in our branch of the "tree". Even "modern day" prosimians are distinct, genetically and ancestrally, from those prosimian ancestors we shared....themselves divided into subgroups.
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