Aha.
THat hypothesis assumes, though, that men did indeed evolve from non-ape primates.
What if apes evolved(de-evolved?) from men, and monkeys evolved from apes? THen if you hypothesized that the sequence was monkey-man-ape...when the unknowable truth was actually man-ape-monkey...would it be possible to erroneously conclude that the sequence was monkey-ape-man?
I said it was a testable hypothesis given modern technology.
In fact, the other day there was a little article about how a "control" gene from a human genome was inserted into the genome of a rat and it worked ~ did exactly what it was supposed to do. However, when it was inserted into the genome of a chimpanzee, a supposedly far closer human relative, it didn't work.
The idea in that test was to see what real differences there are between people and chimps. The first test showed our control genes don't work in chimps but they do in rats.
I immediately thought of Mohammad's bizarre claim.
Now, for the second test.