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humans evolving from monkeys

AndromedaRXJ

AndromedaRXJ

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splitfangr06 said:
Would someone explain to me why evolutionists belive that humans evolved from monkeys. In my opinion if we did evolved from monkeys then why is there still monkeys on earth today? Shoulden't they all be evolved?
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Humans are monkeys. So it's an invalid question.

Humans are just one of many branches of monkeys. There's other branches of monkeys. Take baboons for instance. They "evolved from monkeys". One might ask, why didn't all other branches of monkeys evolve into baboons? Well because they evolved a different way.

Also, before anyone else says the whole "apes aren't monkeys", I disagree as I like to stick to monophyletic groupings. I use the word "monkey" synonymous with "simian.

So for the people who agree with evolution but keep saying that we didn't evolve from monkeys but simply share a common ancestor. I dunno where the hell this comes from, but that notion is misleading. The ancestor would have been classed as a monkey. It was an arboreal simian with a tail (a tail shouldn't be a defining feature either) that would have highly resembled modern monkeys. On top of that, old world monkeys and apes are more related to each other than either is to new world monkeys. So either apes are monkeys, or monkeys evolved twice on two separate branches where one monkey branch is more related to apes than to another monkey branch, which makes the whole definition of "monkey" completely arbitrary.

Apes are simply tailless monkeys.
 
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Ben West

Ben West

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AndromedaRXJ said:
Humans are monkeys. So it's an invalid question.

Humans are just one of many branches of monkeys. There's other branches of monkeys. Take baboons for instance. They "evolved from monkeys". One might ask, why didn't all other branches of monkeys evolve into baboons? Well because they evolved a different way.

Also, before anyone else says the whole "apes aren't monkeys", I disagree as I like to stick to monophyletic groupings. I use the word "monkey" synonymous with "simian.

So for the people who agree with evolution but keep saying that we didn't evolve from monkeys but simply share a common ancestor. I dunno where the hell this comes from, but that notion is misleading. The ancestor would have been classed as a monkey. It was an arboreal simian with a tail (a tail shouldn't be a defining feature either) that would have highly resembled modern monkeys. On top of that, old world monkeys and apes are more related to each other than either is to new world monkeys. So either apes are monkeys, or monkeys evolved twice on two separate branches where one monkey branch is more related to apes than to another monkey branch, which makes the whole definition of "monkey" completely arbitrary.

Apes are simply tailless monkeys.
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Dear Andromeda, False, since Humans were made on the 3rd Day which was some 10 Billion years BEFORE the first bacteria appeared in the water of our Earth. Gen 2:4-7 That is God's Truth.
 
AndromedaRXJ

AndromedaRXJ

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Guy Threepwood said:
Everyone knows humans came from monkeys, Piltdown man proved that beyond question!
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That was actually a hoax, but many people with only basic knowledge of evolution think that humans coming from monkeys is a misconception. But the notion of that being a misconception is it self a misconception. Like a sort of misconception inception.
 
AndromedaRXJ

AndromedaRXJ

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Mestemia said:
Humans and monkeys evolved from apes, not monkeys.
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Wait, monkeys evolved from apes?

So those who claim humans evolved from monkeys are either ignorant of the truth or liars.
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Humans evolved from apes and apes evolved from monkeys, as in arboreal simians with tails. Old world monkeys are more related to apes than to new world monkeys. That would have to mean apes evolved from monkeys and that all non-ape monkeys simply retain more plesiomorphic traits.
 
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