According to classic darwinism, humans evolved from the ape. That turned out not to be true, so according to neo darwinism, man and ape evolved from a common something.
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Um, no, not quite true. Humans DID come from apes, but modern apes and humans have a common answer. That is, of course, ignoring the fact that humans ARE apes. YOU FAIL!!!
Attn, people commenting on this: humans are primates, but not apes. True.
Reference to the quote: I believe the word you are looking for is "ancestor".
I've read some theories about how hominids never actually lived in the trees and were always bipedal, but I never actually understood how that theory made sense, because Proconsul was certainly a tree-dweller, so we came down from the trees at some point.
rodents once we were, hell , where'd the monkey come from in the first place.
We're cousins of the apes, more like them than other mammals. I don't mind being classed with them. Better than Ferrets
or fundies
Attn, people commenting on this: humans are primates, but not apes. True.
Yes, we are. We are great apes.
Correction: You, JohnR7, devolved from a common something. The rest of us evolved from a very special something, thanks very much.
Get your stinking logic off of me, you damned dirty fundie!
We still evolved from apes, just not the ones that are alive today. Well, technically one you evolved from your parents (i.e. micro-evolution). In that case, I guess you could say the apes that you evolved from are still alive.
According to actual science, human IS an ape.
Darwin isn't half as important to ToE as you fundies think he is. He died many years ago, and much has been reveled since then. Mr Darwin would probably not recognize his Theory if he saw it today.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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