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Munch's Master, sorry to burst your bubble, but two things. One, humans didn't evolve "from" primates. They are primates and apes, much like crocodiles are reptiles. Secondly, humans didn't evolve from other modern primates and apes, anymore than I evolved from my brother. Both species evolved from a common ancestor.
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Theory again. But you partly stated my point- mankind is NOT from chimpanzees as biology teachers so wrongly try to claim. i never once in my post said I thought we came from apes, in fact I claimed the EXACT opposite. Humans are not actually primates, we are homo sapiens, they are I believe homo erectus? Different subclass of the same gene. We may well be from a common ancestor, but we haven't come from monkeys. and I know you already said that, but my whole point is we aren't apes or from apes. We are from a distant ancestor which split into 2 different species. We are related to apes but we are not apes, nor were we once apes. People say our closest relative is the chipanzee but in fact they are wrong- our closest relative is incredibly, the pig. Chimps are 99.something% similar to us, but pigs are 99.something+anothersomething% similar to us. Phsyical similarities are not everything. There's nervous similarities, reproductive similarities, organ process-similarities, and various other similarities between us and pigs (Pig-related insults notwithstanding). And yes there are mental similarities but the human brain is still considerably different to an ape brain. I'd compare our minds closer to dolphins.
Although much of what I said (apart from the statistics) is of course theory or intelligent suggestion, as is your point of view. I say that so you don't call me a hypocrite for branding a large chunk of your argument as theory when of course, an equally large chunk of mine is theory. However I find it odd we have different ponits of view on this when in fact our point of view is essentially the same- neither of us think humans are descended from apes. You think we are apes and think we share an ancient ancestor with apes, I just think the latter point. You say toe-may-toe, I say tuh-mah-toe.