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ZombiePelican
12/28/18 2:09:58 PM
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I'm not sure why, it's like looking at a lost part of myself of something
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DK9292
12/28/18 2:10:35 PM
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TC, I have something to tell you.
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SterlingM
12/28/18 2:10:45 PM
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Humans look nothing like primates
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ZombiePelican
12/28/18 2:12:00 PM
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SterlingM posted...
Humans look nothing like primates

We evolved from primates though
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hollow_shrine
12/28/18 2:12:26 PM
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DK9292 posted...
TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.

qkhZeEi
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catboy0_0
12/28/18 2:13:29 PM
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this'll last long I'm sure of it
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SterlingM
12/28/18 2:13:37 PM
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Scientist incorrectly assume we evolved from primates
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ZombiePelican
12/28/18 2:13:52 PM
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hollow_shrine posted...
DK9292 posted...
TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.

qkhZeEi

I'm not a primate though
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DK9292
12/28/18 2:15:15 PM
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ZombiePelican posted...
hollow_shrine posted...
DK9292 posted...
TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.

qkhZeEi

I'm not a primate though

TC. This may be hard to hear.

Yes you are. We all are.
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ZombiePelican
12/28/18 2:16:36 PM
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DK9292 posted...
ZombiePelican posted...
hollow_shrine posted...
DK9292 posted...
TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.

qkhZeEi

I'm not a primate though

TC. This may be hard to hear.

Yes you are. We all are.

I get that we all evolved from primates but are humans still considered primates? Serious question
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hollow_shrine
12/28/18 2:16:50 PM
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ZombiePelican posted...
I'm not a primate though

Are you sure?

By modern biological classifications humans are considered apes, and apes are considered primates. Therefore, humans are primates.

But what's your reasoning here?
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DK9292
12/28/18 2:18:11 PM
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ZombiePelican posted...
DK9292 posted...
ZombiePelican posted...
hollow_shrine posted...
DK9292 posted...
TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.

qkhZeEi

I'm not a primate though

TC. This may be hard to hear.

Yes you are. We all are.

I get that we all evolved from primates but are humans still considered primates? Serious question

We didn't evolve from primates. We ARE primates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
The Hominidae (/hmndi/), whose members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.[1]

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ZombiePelican
12/28/18 2:18:49 PM
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hollow_shrine posted...
Are you sure?

Not anymore, no

hollow_shrine posted...
But what's your reasoning here?

Evolution?
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SterlingM
12/28/18 2:28:49 PM
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Collusion?
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hollow_shrine
12/28/18 2:31:38 PM
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The confusion here seems to center on the word 'primate' itself, which is just a name for a subcategory of animals under the family of mammals.

The designation 'primate' includes several subcategories of animals and is at least one stage removed from the category of species, which is where we start describing specific animals like humans, or orangutans, or mandrills.

And evolution does describe genetic change over a significant time span. But just because members of a particular species evolve, doesn't mean that other members of that species won't go on living and/or potentially evolving parallel to the newly genetically divergent species.

It's why we want to be specific with our language when we say, for example, that 'humans and other other great apes share a common genetic ancestor' instead of 'humans came from X.'
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