[MarineBrat]

Queue the Helen Thomas and Hanoi John pics! :)

[Slapshot68]

Primates are God’s joke on mankind. He did it to mess with Liberals’ minds.

[Redcloak]

IBTFDUC!

(In before the first DU crack)

[KarlInOhio]

In other words, "the other great apes we see now, such as chimps or gorillas or orangutans, might have descended from human-like ancestors,"

ZIRA: Cornelius has developed a brilliant hypothesis -

CORNELIUS (quickly) It's probably wrong --

ZIRA -- that the ape evolved from a lower order of primate, possibly man

[Coyoteman]

Interesting.

[Caesar Soze]

A strange birth defect in what may have been the first direct human ancestor led this septum to cross behind the spinal cord in the lumbar or lower back region-an odd configuration more typical of invertebrates. This would have made horizontal stances inefficient. "Any mammal with this set of changes would only be comfortable standing upright," Filler said.

I wonder if such a mutation could explain the bipedalism of Oliver, the humanzee?

[Fractal Trader]

GGG ?

[Alter Kaker]

It’s not evolution in reverse, because evolution doesn’t have a direction. In many environments brachiation — swinging from tree limb to tree limb — makes much more evolutionary sense than bipedal locomotion. A gibbon in a forest can move much quicker than a human being can, which makes it easier to get to tasty plants high in the forest canopy and also evade predators.

[Red Badger]

[muawiyah]

Well, yes, it's a revolution if you have the chimps and gorillas being spun off a direct line to modern humans ~ kind of like that piece in the Koran where Allah punishes some evil and/or sinful and/or unliked persons by turning them into apes.

Where did that researcher come from? Was that Pakistan or Saudi?!