Ok, I got a lot of retarded questions about humans being primates. So I thought I would give some people a little 5th grade education on the subject. There are things living on the Earth, we have chosen to classify them in to groups that have the same characteristics. The different groups go like this; Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The term primate is the classification that falls under order, underneath this classification, we share similar characteristics. Monkeys, apes, chimps and humans. We as humans evolved from a common ancestor that apes, and chimps evolved from. This primate, which is extinct now was called Aegyptopithecus; this creature does not exist anymore because it has evolved into either humans, chimps or apes. When this creature walked the Earth, there where no humans, chimps or apes; that’s why they and we are here today. So, does that clear everything up for everyone? We are in the classification of mammals by the way.
2006-08-17
18:50:02
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