On the religion and spirituality section many defenders of evolutionary theory say that humans evolved from an "apelike creature".
Given that we are, in fact, apes, and our closest relatives are also apes, isn't it reasonable to assume that the common ancestors of all ape species would also have been in the hominoidae superfamily?
Why are so many so keen to call our ancestors "ape like creatures" rather than just calling an ape an ape?
Or do humans belong to some other family of primates I've never heard of?
2007-01-14
23:34:52
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