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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Chunk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

It's the same deal as with birds and dinosaurs. Birds didn't evolve from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Y'all are a bunch of hyper-evolved fish, so shut the fuck up and let the superior crabs take over.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In particular humans are the apes with the largest penis size to body size ratio.

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