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To: Alter Kaker; mlc9852
I am arguing that humans descended from apes.

We didn't descend from apes. We are apes.

A distinction without a difference.

mlc9852 is saying we descended from apes

If we descended, without major physiological change, feom apes, we are apes.

252 posted on 09/01/2005 7:41:36 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Natural Selection is the Free Market : Intelligent Design is the Centrally Planned Economy)
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To: Oztrich Boy

We did not descend from apes. Apes are apes and humans are humans (well, at least most of us).


253 posted on 09/01/2005 7:42:37 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: Oztrich Boy
A distinction without a difference. If we descended, without major physiological change, feom apes, we are apes.

Well that's the point. Going way back in our tree, we also descended from reptiles. However, we are not significantly different, from a purely physiological position, from any of the other apes. We are related more closely to Chimpanzees than Chimpanzees are related to other apes like gorillas.

348 posted on 09/02/2005 6:37:15 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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