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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
apes is just a word we use to refer to tailless non-human primates
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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
apes isn't even a scientific word; historically it always referred to non-human tail-less primates. There's the superfamily Hominoidea which includes humans, orangutans, chimps, gorillas, etc.. Cag was at no point incorrect in saying we are not apes, but we evolved from apes.
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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
oh hey okay lets look that wikipedia article cool wait a second what's this, oh, humans arent fucking considered apes:
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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
told you from now on in this thread i'm just going to copy/paste my old posts, there is no need for me to type anything new because you just keep leading the argument in circles
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LadyKillmongerking steveyos
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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
you're the one posting something out of context; no where in there does it say "humans are apes". First it says hominoidae consists of chimps, orangutans, gorillas, and humans, then says hominoidae are the "great apes", it doesn't actually say humans = apes. You're the one taking something out of context. Then later in the article, it appropriately makes the distinction:
In summary, there are three common uses of the term "ape": non-biologists may not distinguish between "monkeys" and "apes", or may use "ape" for any tailless monkey or non-human hominoid, whereas biologists traditionally used the term "ape" for all non-human hominoids as shown above.
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Moonmanking steveyos10-14-2013
you could offhandedly swoop humans into the category when talking about "great apes" and "apes" in generalities, and a biologist would know what youre talking about, but traditionally biologists refer to apes as the non-human members of hominoidea
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