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Yes. Humans are animals. Also great apes. But that's not what the poll question is asking.
I don't like to brag so I am just a mediocre ape.
I was blissfully ignorant about banners until this post.
That's the reason I went back to the family Hominidae, which is comonly called "the great apes." We are members of that family, and so we are apes. However, we are not chimpanzees or bonobos, nor are we gorillas or orangutans, although we are related to them.
I answered no, but probably not for the same reasons that Christians would answer no, since Baha'is believe that evolution is a fact.
I am a naysayer and I believe that humans are animals, although we are more than just animals, since we have a soul.
Wrong according to who?
It's no fun, being a primate alien.
I accept the evidence used to classify us as a member of the great apes and find the classification to be sound.
And what were Abdu'l-Bahá's credentials for making such a claim?I answered no, but probably not for the same reasons that Christians would answer no, since Baha'is believe that evolution is a fact.
While `Abdu'l-Bahá states that man progressed through many stages before reaching this present form, `Abdu'l-Bahá states that humans are a distinct species, and not an animal, and that in every stage of evolution through which humans progressed, they were potentially humans. Nov 8, 2022
Bahá'í Faith and Science | Encyclopedia MDPI
www.zmescience.com
Abdu'l-Baha got his credentials from is father, Baha'u'llah.
That is just giving the social and biological perceptions' constrast an exagerated -and unjustificated - significance.Many opinions
However, there is still a great deal of disagreement, even in the scientific community, about whether humans are considered apes. Many, as previously mentioned, consider this whole Hominoid group as apes. Other scientists still use the historical definition, to describe non-human primates.
Indeed, this is the most common in everyday usage for laypeople too. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an ape as “any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon)”.
Some researchers argue that we are not apes but ex-apes because we are fundamentally different from other apes. These differences are due to the way we communicate and other things that are not visible just by looking at DNA. In this case, the word “ape” should mean something different than Hominoid.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a straightforward answer to the question of whether humans are apes or not. The most common consensus is that non-human primates are considered apes, but many biologists are increasingly designating humans as part of this simian clade.
Are humans really apes?
Even though you look different, you share 99% of the same genes with most other apes.
