What about Darwin?

Question

OK, Who thinks that we evoloved from primates?

pri·mate /ˈpraɪmeɪt or, esp. for 1, ˈpraɪmɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[prahy-meyt or, esp. for 1, prahy-mit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
2. any of various omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys), Prosimii (lemurs, loris, and their allies), and Tarsioidea (tarsiers), esp. distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability.
Ok, people, check out what a primate is. We are not primates: IE> comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys) The key word here is comprising!

Answer 1

While you've got the dictionary out, try looking up "comprising".

We'll wait while you realize just how silly your "argument" is.


btw, we didn't "evolve from primates"--we ARE primates.

Answer 2

I think you either have no idea about evolution, or you've purposely made this a loaded question.

Hmans are primates. It's a fact. That is our order. Apes are primates. That is their order. Somewhere along the line, humans and apes had a common ancestor, who would also have been a primate.

So yes, a primate DOES come from a primate.

Addendum: I have read your definition. What part of it are you not understanding? It explicitly states that humans are primates.

Answer 3

We shared a common ancestor and its spelled "evolved" NOT "evoloved"!!!

Extra: Read your dictionary copy and paste, you contradict your argument. There are suborders to primates including anthropoids (humans). Suborder means there is an order higher up the classification system, that being primates.

Answer 4

A primate ancestor, not a current primate. BTW we ARE primates.

edit: you can't use a definition to support your claim against being a primate that says we are a primate. sheesh

I will use a definition that is simple and on an 8th grade level from my remedial book: Primate: member of a group of mammals that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans.

Prentice Hall, Biology Exploring Life by Campbell, Williamson, Heyden pg 831 Teachers Edition

Common primate characteristics: binocular color vision, oposable thumbs, rotating shoulder joints, partially rotating elbow joints, flat nails, care for their young, etc.

Also not all fossils of hominids (human-like ancestors) are our ancestors. Many lines arose and died out leaving no modern ancestors.

Humans are different than apes in several ways: we are bipedal (walk on 2 feet), we have larger brains, we have a cup shaped pelvis, an s shaped spine (apes have a c shaped spine), our spine inserts at the bottom of our skull as opposed to the back, our feet are different.

Human Chimpanzee
Kingdom: Animalia Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Chordata
Class: Mammalia Mammalia
Order:Primate Primate
Family: Hominidae Hominidae
Genus: Homo Pan
Species: sapien troglodytes (common chimp)

Therefore we are primates, but we are not great apes.

Answer 5

On the contrary, we didn't just go from primates to humanoids in one shot. As the continents began to shift, so did the populous of primates. While some of them were south, in what we call today's modern day Africa and South America, they were well suited for their environment there - which is why we still have primates today, because they had to reason to change, necessarily.

In the North, it got much colder during the change of seasons, so primates had to either adapt or die out. The will to survive for some is much stronger than in others, which is why some of those primates began to take on the form of humanoids. They used simple tools and eventually, continued to progress as they learned to use more tools over the hundreds of thousands of years that they advanced and as they had a humanoid figure, they began to spread out.

Some traveled to Africa and Southern continents, others stayed in what's modern day Europe.

An example of this is skin color: Darker skin pigments are a natural UV protection. If you take this into the reference of your shirt color: A black shirt may absorb more heat, but the natural protection of a black shirt is 6-9, where as the protection of a white or other light colored shirt is much less, ranking at 2-4. Closer to the equator, areas receive more sunlight - meaning people in Africa and South America adapted darker skin colors to protect them naturally from the sunlight. In the North, there isn't as much sun, therefore, the darker pigments in the 8-allele gene for human skin color, never showed through.

Answer 6

I don't think we evolved from primates (eg monkeys) but I'm open to the possibility that God used evolution as a means of bringing about his purposes. I'm still researching this topic myself.

Answer 7

Human, apes, monkeys... we all share common ancestry. In fact, humans are just a different species of ape.
Why does that bother you.
What do you have against our "cousins"??

Answer 8

Darwin was a moron.

According to Darwinian theory, "survival of the fittest" those members of a species who are defective become homosexual to avoid propagation of the defect.

In Darwinian theory homosexuals are defective members of the species.

"Only the strong" non-defective "survive".

In Christianity homosexuals are sinners, just like everyone else.

This is one of the many reasons I reject Darwinian theory and it is my favorite reason to post on.

People who believe in the Darwinian idea of evolution think homosexuals are defective and Christians think homosexuals are like everyone else.

My second favorite reason for believing in creation is that Isaac Asimov, a Chemist/Biologist and one of my favorite authors, established beyond a shadow of a doubt (in my eyes) that the possibility of evolution is somewhere in the quintillions to one range. Asimov was born a Jew and became an atheist preferring the gamble theory to the sure thing theory.

Answer 9

We rose from the primeval slime, mate,
With many a misstep and lurch
Now, the only place you'll find a Primate
Is high up in the Anglican Church.

Answer 10

HOMO SAPIENS ARE PRIMATES! CRACK A BOOK PLEASE OR PAY ATTENTION IN SCHOOL!

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Use the same dictionary to look up the word comprising, it means TO INCLUDE OR CONTAIN. What do YOU think it means?