• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    18 hours ago

    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.

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      18 hours ago

      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.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It is correct. I’ve been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.