(March 18, 2012 at 9:45 pm)Blanca Wrote:(March 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I explained to her that what he meant by that is that the human species had evolved into being in Africa, and since humans are nothing more than apes, everyone is an African ape, not just her, and not just black people.
Good for your son! But just a small point, scientists do not believe humans evolved from apes but from ape-like creatures. we share a common ancestor with apes but did not evolve from them. See link below for more details:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/librar...cat02.html
We are apes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
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