[moog]

Millions of years ago, we descended from apes. Get over it! Its not a big deal. Actually, I though evos believed not that we descended from apes, but that we had a common ancestor.

[ndt]

"Actually, I though evos believed not that we descended from apes, but that we had a common ancestor."

We have a common ancestor with the current living apes, but that common ancestor was also an ape (but not one yo've ever seen in a zoo) as we are ourselves. So, no, we did not descend from any living apes, we have a common ancestor with the living apes.

[Oztrich Boy]

Actually, I though evos believed not that we descended from apes, but that we had a common ancestor.

Humans are apes. It's not a big deal

[King Prout]

strictly speaking, humans ARE apes.

Modern ones, different from the other modern apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas) in the same way that those others are different from each other.

All the modern apes descended from earlier apes.

At some point, all the modern apes came from a single common ancestral species of early ape. Indeed, there is evidence that all modern apes carry genetic information from several common ancestral individuals.

Farther back, the apes share common ancestry with the other major branches of Primates (monkeys, etc...).

For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why so many people find this so very objectionable.