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Since I don´t have anything else to write about, listen to this (from all-knowing Wikipedia):
"In traditional and non-scientific use, the term "ape" excludes humans, and can include tailless primates taxonomically considered monkeys (such as the Barbary ape and the black ape), and is thus not equivalent to the scientific taxon Hominoidea."
Even worse, "cladistically speaking", humans and apes *are* monkeys. So now what?
And all this time I assumed that "ape" means ape and "monkey" means "all the other damn creatures throwing feces at one another", but apparently the chimp out is worse than I expected...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute
ReplyDelete"Possibilities suggested have been to rename Homo sapiens to Australopithecus sapiens (or even Pan sapiens), or to move some Australopithecus species into new genera."
ReplyDeleteCladistics are great fun, LOL.
Cladistically speaking, humans are australopithecines, austrolopithecines are apes, apes are Old World monkeys, and Old World monkeys together with New World monkeys and *some* prosimians are one large group, wtf, and ultimately we are all lobe-finned fishes from Nunavut, wow, were is this in the Bible plz show me?
ReplyDeleteI´m beginning to suspect that my opposition to Shaivism was wrong, maybe Shiva really is the creator, I mean, it would make some sense, wouldn´t it? LOL
ReplyDelete"The chimpanzee–human last common ancestor (CHLCA) is the last common ancestor shared by the extant Homo (human) and Pan (chimpanzee and bonobo) genera of Hominini. Due to complex hybrid speciation, it is not possible to give a precise estimate on the age of this ancestral population. While "original divergence" between populations may have occurred as early as 13 million years ago (Miocene), hybridization may have been ongoing until as recently as 4 million years ago (Pliocene)."
ReplyDeleteMakes sense.