Are humans apes?

Question

ZERO: If you were a cat you'd be a champion mouser :-) ...

Answer 1

You could very well say that and not be technically wrong. Look at the taxonomy and do not listen to human superiority's gone overboard.

PS Are tiger and lion both Panthera? To those that say different species; so what. The genus similarity says all.

Answer 2

I'll quote part of your own answer,
You are an ape.
Your tail is merely a stub of bones that don't even protrude outside the skin. Your dentition includes not only vestigial canines, but incisors, cuspids, bicuspids, and distinctive molars that come to five points interrupted by a "Y" shaped crevasse. This in addition to all of your other traits, like the dramatically increased range of motion in your shoulder, as well as a profound increase in cranial capacity and disposition toward a bipedal gait, indicates that you are not merely a vertebrate cranial chordate and a tetrapoidal placental mammalian primate, but you are more specifically an ape, and so was your mother before you.

Genetic similarity confirms morphological similarity rather conclusively, just as Charles Darwin himself predicted more than 140 years ago. While he knew nothing of DNA of course, he postulated that inheritable units of information must be contributed by either parent. He rather accurately predicted the discovery of DNA by illustrating the need for it. Our 98.4% to 99.4% identical genetic similarity explains why you have such social, behavioral, sexual, developmental, intellectual, and physical resemblance to a bonobo chimpanzee. Similarities that are not shared with any other organism on the planet. Hence you are both different species of the same literal family. In every respect, you are nearly identical.

You, sir, are an ape.

Answer 3

Evolution is an undeniable and scientifically verifiable fact, but here is a graphical example that gives us a glimpse of how it happened effectively.
The whole period of evolution of man on earth, since he was a unicellular organism until he acquired the graceful and beautiful form it has now, can be condensed and observed in the nine months of gestation in the womb. In that environment, an aquatic medium, life begins as a unicellular organism and takes the shape of a beautiful baby at the end.
In like manner life on earth started in the sea. An aquatic medium like the womb. Human beings started their life as a unicellular organism in the sea. Khalil Gibran says: "There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the ocean." But that unicellular organism was always destined to be a man and not an ape.
During the gestation period the fetus goes through different forms and shapes. At times it may resemble a tadpole or may look very much like the fetus of an ape. Nevertheless it always was and had the potential to become a human being. So even though fossil remains may prove that human beings at some point during their evolution were balancing themselves from trees from their own tails, they were always human beings and not apes. We were always a different species even when we were just one cell.

Answer 4

Humans are NOT apes.

Closely related in Make-Up, but also very different.

and let me add that evolution is highly DISPUTABLE, Not scientifically proved, Only a THEORY.

Answer 5

Of course. Just look at how well Andy Serkis played King Kong...
oh yeah...
HE HUGGED ME ON SUNDAY!!!!
-sorry...anyway, the answer to your question is yes, of course they are.

To above answerers: apes ARE primates, silly.

Answer 6

I have known a couple of men in my life that were big apes.

Answer 7

Humans are not apes, but they are connected by evolution.

Answer 8

No, but some behave like apes.

Answer 9

We're primates. I guess semisnugzz told you, huh? =0)

Answer 10

Humans, orangatans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas are great apes.