Poll: Do you believe humans are apes?
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I find it funny that I am getting a lot of heat for trying to start a conversation just for the sake of starting a conversation.deadguynotyetburied said:
If you are not going to contribute to thread then why bother even posting?
Maybe you should stop trying to troll, nitpick, and outsmart people. Then reevaluate the way you spend your time.
Evolution - We're not evolving a whole lot. If you'd take a baby who was born 50,000 years ago, and you'd raise him with other kids of this age, I'm quite sure they'd end up the same. He could be taught to fly an airplane and all that. We have removed all evolutionary pressure, so we won't evolve into a 'better form'. Never mistake evolution for a march forwards. It's just change. Tigers today aren't 'better' then sabretooths used to be. Just better adjusted, or lucky to survive. Things change, they don't neccesarily improve. Even changing from a single-celled organism to an apex predator is just a change in the end, not neccesarily progress, though typically we would want to believe that.
Are we apes.
As far as we know, evolution has spawned humans as a species. We're not apes, we're family of them though. There have been several types of human; most famously the Neanderthal and Sapien, though there have been others. We believe Sapien is the last remaining kind. Rumours exists that some species have survived in unexplored areas, but we can't be sure. Our gene pool is more limited than of most other creatures on the planet. This is probably because humanity once almost died out. We aren't a very strong species. Most humans died out, our kind survived. Probably due to tool use and luck - and here we are.
Apes are a classification. We make this because we are animals. We classify. We need to put everything in it's own box, for easy identifying. But obviously, the whole system isn't a fact. It's merely a product of our build. A way to cope in a large world. We sort things, though in truth they aren't sorted. We just kind of put species with common ancestors in the same box, whilst actually every single sample of everything has it's own genotype and fenotype, it's own buildup.
However, people tend to put lots of meaning behind questions like that. 'Are we apes?!' basically means 'Should I assort myself with species that share my common ancestor?!' I say do whatever the hell you want. It doesn't really matter, since it's only in your head in the end.
Are we apes.
As far as we know, evolution has spawned humans as a species. We're not apes, we're family of them though. There have been several types of human; most famously the Neanderthal and Sapien, though there have been others. We believe Sapien is the last remaining kind. Rumours exists that some species have survived in unexplored areas, but we can't be sure. Our gene pool is more limited than of most other creatures on the planet. This is probably because humanity once almost died out. We aren't a very strong species. Most humans died out, our kind survived. Probably due to tool use and luck - and here we are.
Apes are a classification. We make this because we are animals. We classify. We need to put everything in it's own box, for easy identifying. But obviously, the whole system isn't a fact. It's merely a product of our build. A way to cope in a large world. We sort things, though in truth they aren't sorted. We just kind of put species with common ancestors in the same box, whilst actually every single sample of everything has it's own genotype and fenotype, it's own buildup.
However, people tend to put lots of meaning behind questions like that. 'Are we apes?!' basically means 'Should I assort myself with species that share my common ancestor?!' I say do whatever the hell you want. It doesn't really matter, since it's only in your head in the end.
Clearly, we are the Nietzschian superape, or überaffe, physically and morally superior to other apes.The_ModeRazor said:
Genus Homo, in family Hominidae.Mukil said:
Latin is used a lot generally because of when this branch of science developed for humans the lead researcher was Galen (2nd century) on human anatomy and physiology and he dissected other animals and a few primates and used comparative study to fuel the field... I don't agree with the use of latin as it is a dead language outside the academic circle. Just cause we have windows 98 doesn't mean every game produced needs to be made for it!arc1991 said:
*Edit corrected grammer error*
I expressed myself incorrectly then. I meant "animal" in the sense of primitive and less ability of rational thought.FireFox170 said:We can't be "Less Animal"....dicai said:As the years go by we will be less animal, as to almost find no similarity between apes and us. But, yes, I absolutely believe that our biological ancestors were apes. Mine was a cute monkey named Bobo
Listen "In the Year 2525-Zager & Evans"
Species are catagorized into:
Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
The Kingdom Catagory is split into:
Kingdom Bacteria
Kingdom Archaea
Kingdom Protista
Kingdom Plantae
Kingdom Fungi
Kingdom Animalia
We are obviously in Kingdom Animalia
Well, the article says that we're from "ape" category of primates, and seeing as I have no expertise to say otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and agree.
Always been a little fuzzy on the distinctions within the primate category.
The article could do with some source listings, however.
Always been a little fuzzy on the distinctions within the primate category.
The article could do with some source listings, however.
Apes is a term to describe a family. apes are primates and there are a few false apes such as a Barbary Macaque which are monkeys. we are apes, we are also technically great apes as opposed to being lesser apes (due to size) it's a term just like primates (which we are also)LittleChone said:
there's a post on 2nd or 3rd page with the direct line from superfamily down on what we are might read it! Apes aren't from an evolutionary standpoint a species!
