SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agoWe were the monkeys all alonglemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up11.36Karrow-down121
arrow-up11.34Karrow-down1imageWe were the monkeys all alonglemmy.dbzer0.comSnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agomessage-square88linkfedilink
minus-squarePegajace@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down4·2 years agoApes are monkeys, in the same sense that humans are apes.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoI’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses… Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
minus-squareBumblefumble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·2 years agoFamily tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoYou are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
minus-squarejackeryjoo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 years agoIt is correct. I’ve been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah, looks like I was mistaken.
minus-squarejackeryjoo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoGood on you for realizing it. It was difficult for me to admit I was wrong when it happened to me as well, so I feel your confusion/pain :)
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWe’re old world monkeys a little more specifically, you can tell partly by our lack of tails
Apes are monkeys, in the same sense that humans are apes.
I’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses…
Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
Family tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
You are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
It is correct. I’ve been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.
Yeah, looks like I was mistaken.
Good on you for realizing it. It was difficult for me to admit I was wrong when it happened to me as well, so I feel your confusion/pain :)
Nothing wrong with learning.
We’re old world monkeys a little more specifically, you can tell partly by our lack of tails