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To: Echo Talon
Blah blah blah, a bunch of big words perpetuating a lie that we evolved from apes.

If we evolved from apes, what did apes evolve from? I've never had that question answered.

29 posted on 04/13/2005 7:23:13 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Question Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

tree shrews -> lemurs -> tarsiers -> apes* -> humans

* The earliest apes differentiated from ancestral haplorhines during the early Miocene Epoch, about 18-22 million years ago.

PS. Keep in mind that the modern critters listed above are just approximations of the ancestral creatures, as the extant species have also continued to evolve, though with lesser divergence. Note that monkeys diverged down their own path from tarsiers, and so apes did not evolve from monkeys, contrary to popular cliché.


36 posted on 04/13/2005 7:33:03 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Cowboy Bob
If we evolved from apes, what did apes evolve from? I've never had that question answered.

Dont ya know, they say we came from some slimy thing from the ocean... and just poof the human body had morphed into the great body that we have today. pretty amazing really...

42 posted on 04/13/2005 7:42:59 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Cowboy Bob
If we evolved from apes, what did apes evolve from? I've never had that question answered.

Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ

104 posted on 04/13/2005 9:51:34 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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