[ECM]

Maybe they were never joined...and this is further proof.

No, it isn't.

"It isn't", because...?

[mysterio]

"It isn't", because...?

Because the evidence doesn't support the conclusion the poster has drawn from it. Humans and apes split earlier than previously thought, therefore humans and apes never shared a common ancestor? That doesn't seem sound logic to me. So that's what I indicated in my post.