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minus-squarePegajace@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down4·2 years agoApes are monkeys, in the same sense that humans are apes.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoI’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses… Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
minus-squareBumblefumble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-22 years agoFamily tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoYou are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
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minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah, looks like I was mistaken.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe’re old world monkeys a little more specifically, you can tell partly by our lack of tails
Apes are monkeys, in the same sense that humans are apes.
I’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses…
Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
Family tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
You are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
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Yeah, looks like I was mistaken.
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Nothing wrong with learning.
We’re old world monkeys a little more specifically, you can tell partly by our lack of tails