• 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.

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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: