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To: longshadow

I assume he meant to say "closest living relatives with an ancestor in common with man" ... nobody thinks chimps were our ancestors.

Don't tell anybody, but that last common ancestor of humans and chimps would have looked a heck of a lot more like a chimp than like us.

129 posted on 11/06/2005 6:23:19 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)

To: VadeRetro

I hate to break it to you guys, but we are monkeys. It has been proven:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513930/posts?page=139#139

131 posted on 11/06/2005 6:35:16 PM PST by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)

To: VadeRetro

Don't tell anybody, but that last common ancestor of humans and chimps would have looked a heck of a lot more like a chimp than like us.

Agreed; but it wasn't a chimp..... it WAS an ape!

;-)

132 posted on 11/06/2005 6:36:44 PM PST by longshadow

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