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Info Humans are Apes, that is a fact.

woolfe9998

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Correction on your lingo. We are not apes. We are human. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Our DNA in 98% identical to chimpanzees, but not 100%. Therefore, we are related to apes without being apes.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Correction on your lingo. We are not apes. We are human. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Our DNA in 98% identical to chimpanzees, but not 100%. Therefore, we are related to apes without being apes.

We're also about 60% homologous with C. elegans, a commonly used organism in genetics, a small roundworm. Dogs and humans are 84%

It would be shocking if we weren't highly homologous with higher life because nature doesn't "like" to reinvent the wheel.
 

whm1974

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Correction on your lingo. We are not apes. We are human. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Our DNA in 98% identical to chimpanzees, but not 100%. Therefore, we are related to apes without being apes.
Dude, we are Modern Apes, We are part of the Great Ape family.
 

Moonbeam

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Correction on your lingo. We are not apes. We are human. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Our DNA in 98% identical to chimpanzees, but not 100%. Therefore, we are related to apes without being apes.
We are not apes only because we do the classification by species. There are two strains of mice that are considered by the same classifiers, us, that are 10% genetically different and classes as the same species. A Martian would definitely say we are apes, which should tell you who whm is.
 

Moonbeam

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We're also about 60% homologous with C. elegans, a commonly used organism in genetics, a small roundworm. Dogs and humans are 84%

It would be shocking if we weren't highly homologous with higher life because nature doesn't "like" to reinvent the wheel.
Nature didn't invent the wheel. My Grandmother did.
 

whm1974

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I wonder why so many people in the US are offended by the fact that we are Animals and that Humans are a species of Ape?
 

sandorski

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I wonder why so many people in the US are offended by the fact that we are Animals and that Humans are a species of Ape?

They want to be Special. It doesn't matter that Humans don't have even one unique Physical feature, superior features(outside the Brain), or that even on the one major biological advantage, the Brain/Consciousness, other animals have varying degrees of that same phenomenon. It's reasonable, IMO, that we are arrogant in our position regarding valuing Earth Life, but many take their arrogance to even higher levels.
 

Muse

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Well, we're primates. It's fairly a matter of sematics whether we're apes. I suppose the scientists might say no, though.
Correction on your lingo. We are not apes. We are human. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Our DNA in 98% identical to chimpanzees, but not 100%. Therefore, we are related to apes without being apes.
Yeah, this is probably the right answer.
 

Muse

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I reproduce by fission.
Myself, I breath CO2 and exhale oxygen. 'Cause global warming alarms me.
Dude, we are Modern Apes, We are part of the Great Ape family.
If it makes you feel better to think so, go right ahead. Do your knuckles scrape the ground? :oops:
I wonder why so many people in the US are offended by the fact that we are Animals and that Humans are a species of Ape?
It's indisputable that we are animals, but apes? Technically, no.

Well, some would dispute that we are animals, but they are full of shit.
 
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Dr. Zaus

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Because we make a categorical distinction between humans, who have inalienable rights, and animals, who we kill for entertainment purposes.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Because we make a categorical distinction between humans, who have inalienable rights, and animals, who we kill for entertainment purposes.
I've never been entertained by any of the animals I've killed. Although, there was that steak one time...
 

woolfe9998

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Dude, we are Modern Apes, We are part of the Great Ape family.

Sure, and our DNA is 98% the same as chimpanzees. However, evidently that 2% seems to matter enough that we're riding cars and blasting off into space, while the chimps are still living in trees.

Then again, some 62 million homo sapiens voted for Donald Trump, so perhaps the 2% hasn't taken us as far as we'd like to imagine.