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    LadyKillmonger
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moonman View Post
    oh hey okay lets look that wikipedia article cool wait a second what's this, oh, humans arent fucking considered apes:
    no that is a drawing made by someone who is offended at being called an ape

    "Apes" are Hominoidea, that is the scientific term and humans are a part of the Superfamily Hominoidea.

    It's not really open for debate. Ape describes a superfamily, not a specific species and humans are a part of the superfamily apes (scientific name Hominoidea)

    end of story, so unless you want to invent a whole new biological clasification system, and have the scientific community actually use it then you are wrong

    you know, the kingdom, phylum, class order etc.. stuff, the biological system of classification that scientists use and in that classification humans are apes.

    "In recent years biologists have generally preferred to use only monophyletic groups in classifications;[citation needed] that is, only groups which include all the descendants of a common ancestor.[11] The superfamily Hominoidea is one such group (or "clade"). Some then use the term "ape" to mean all the members of the superfamily Hominoidea. For example, in a 2005 book, Benton wrote "The apes, Hominoidea, today include the gibbons and orang-utan ... the gorilla and chimpanzee ... and humans".[6] The group traditionally called "apes" by biologists is then called the "non-human apes"."
    Last edited by LadyKillmonger; 10-14-2013 at 12:08 AM.
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