[Suzy Quzy]

Riiiiiiiight....you can call yourself an ape all day long.....doesn't make it so, I guess you can't handle "HUMAN"????

[Dinsdale]

I don't know how anybody who's been to both a grade school playground and the monkey house at the zoo can deny that humans are apes.

Takes all kinds.

[RightWhale]

We are apes. The new world has native monkeys, but no native apes, which probably means we originated somewhere in the old world where the rest of the native ape species are found.

[gondramB]

>>Riiiiiiiight....you can call yourself an ape all day long.....doesn't make it so, I guess you can't handle "HUMAN"????<<

Its a way to classify species - its not a moral judgment. As I mentioned above, even to our closest match DNA wise - the Chimpanzee there are still 40 million DNA differences - that's enough to be in the same family but we're in a different genus and then a different species and subspecies.

You can spin that different ways depending on your outlook.

[RadioAstronomer]

Like it or not, Human is classified as a great Ape.