SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 22 hours agoWe were there monkeys all alonglemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1988arrow-down113
arrow-up1975arrow-down1imageWe were there monkeys all alonglemmy.dbzer0.comSnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 22 hours agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·18 hours agoI’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses… Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
minus-squareBumblefumble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-218 hours agoFamily tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·14 hours agoYou are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
minus-squareTyfud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·15 hours agoIt is correct. I’ve been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·14 hours agoYeah, looks like I was mistaken.
minus-squareTyfud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·49 minutes agoGood on you for realizing it. It was difficult for me to admit I was wrong when it happened to me as well, so I feel your confusion/pain :)
I’m not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it’s been a while since I took any anthropology courses…
Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
Family tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
You are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
It is correct. I’ve been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.
Yeah, looks like I was mistaken.
Good on you for realizing it. It was difficult for me to admit I was wrong when it happened to me as well, so I feel your confusion/pain :)