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To: Hodar
"The fossil record says you are wrong."

I agree with the fossil record : humans did not evolve from chimps. We emerged from a common ancestor and later diverged into different evolutional paths. Ergo: one did not evolve from the other. The insistance that 'evolutionsts' wasnt us all to believe we evolved from chimps or from monkeys is based on a mistaken premise. In fact, our commen ancestor was basically a lemur, versions of which continue on this planet to the present day even though the paths of evolution for other primates diverged from it early on.

86 posted on 05/20/2003 3:20:20 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: cake_crumb; Hodar
I am trying to figure out why you 2 are arguing.

You are in agreement, why are you jumping all over each other?
88 posted on 05/20/2003 3:28:04 PM PDT by Aric2000 (Are you on Grampa Dave's team? I am!! $5 a month is all it takes, come join!!!)
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To: cake_crumb
In fact, our commen ancestor was basically a lemur, versions of which continue on this planet to the present day even though the paths of evolution for other primates diverged from it early on.

If your premise is correct, then we would logically have >98.5% in DNA commonality with the Lemur, than we do have with primates. Whereas, the fossil record shows a more primate to human evolution than dual evolutionary branches.

99 posted on 05/20/2003 3:51:24 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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