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TheBlackAdder

(28,257 posts) Sun Jan 6, 2019, 05:14 PM Jan 2019

Jim Carrey: Human Beings Evolved From Apes. (Well, there might be some debate with a few)

Jim Carrey
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Let’s remember this year that according to very sound scientific evidence, human beings evolved from apes and not the other way around.

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Jim Carrey: Human Beings Evolved From Apes. (Well, there might be some debate with a few) (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 OP

No TlalocW Jan 2019 #1

What TlalocW said. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #2

Also according to scientific taxonomy, humans are apes. aidbo Jan 2019 #3

This is just depressing as hell ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #4

TlalocW

(15,394 posts)

1. No

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 05:45 PM

Jan 2019

Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor.

Just being nitpicky.

TlalocW

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,929 posts)

2. What TlalocW said.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 06:27 PM

Jan 2019

Your cousin is not your grandfather. Apes and humans had a common distant grandfather. So all these millions of years later we are distant cousins. The apes of today are NOT the apes of several million years ago, just as humans are not the hominids of millions of years ago.

I get incredibly irritated at this casual misunderstanding of evolution.

aidbo

(2,328 posts)

3. Also according to scientific taxonomy, humans are apes.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 07:18 PM

Jan 2019

One of the species of Great Apes to be precise.

The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of chimpanzees and their subspecies, and one extant species of humans in a single extant subspecies.[1][a][2][3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

4. This is just depressing as hell

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 07:30 PM

Jan 2019

There are a bunch of idiots in that twitter thread who are arguing against evolution. I just love it when someone states "It's just a theory and not hard, scientific fact", as if that means creationism is equally plausible. Wow! SMH!

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