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minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·9 months agoMonkeys were in that lineage between single celled organisms and you.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·9 months agoApes evolved from monkeys. Monkeys are in your lineage.
minus-squareEveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoYou got it backward—monkeys evolved from apes. Like this: Edit: I was wrong. See my comment 2 levels below.
minus-squarePortosian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoLol, this is also wrong. Replace ape with primate and you’ve got something more accurate. If you actually care about maintaining phyletic groups then apes ( and thus humans) are old world monkeys.
minus-squareGorvin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoYes, but they’re not our main ancestors. A distant relative is. That relative was created by millions of years of natural selection.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoMonkeys are a group of animals. Our ancestors come from that group. They are classified as monkeys. All of us had monkey ancestors. I think you’re confusing that with the specific species of monkey that are alive today. Those are distant relatives of ours, not ancestors.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agodeleted by creator
Monkeys were in that lineage between single celled organisms and you.
Apes. Not monkeys.
Apes evolved from monkeys. Monkeys are in your lineage.
You got it backward—monkeys evolved from apes.
Like this:
Edit: I was wrong. See my comment 2 levels below.
Lol, this is also wrong. Replace ape with primate and you’ve got something more accurate. If you actually care about maintaining phyletic groups then apes ( and thus humans) are old world monkeys.
Yes, but they’re not our main ancestors. A distant relative is. That relative was created by millions of years of natural selection.
Monkeys are a group of animals. Our ancestors come from that group. They are classified as monkeys. All of us had monkey ancestors.
I think you’re confusing that with the specific species of monkey that are alive today. Those are distant relatives of ours, not ancestors.
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