• Portosian@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            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.

          • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I can’t image that to be correct honestly. Apes have much further developed brains than monkeys, so I would assume it logical that apes evolved from monkeys and not the other way around.

            This graphic seems to support my assumption if I am not mistaken:

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      Yes, but they’re not our main ancestors. A distant relative is. That relative was created by millions of years of natural selection.

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        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.