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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. What TlalocW said.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 06:27 PM

Jan 2019

Your cousin is not your grandfather. Apes and humans had a common distant grandfather. So all these millions of years later we are distant cousins. The apes of today are NOT the apes of several million years ago, just as humans are not the hominids of millions of years ago.

I get incredibly irritated at this casual misunderstanding of evolution.

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Jim Carrey: Human Beings Evolved From Apes. (Well, there might be some debate with a few) [View all] TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 OP

No TlalocW Jan 2019 #1

What TlalocW said. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #2

Also according to scientific taxonomy, humans are apes. aidbo Jan 2019 #3

This is just depressing as hell ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #4