Are humans monkeys?

[RoronoaZoro8]

[NamerOfStars]

No, we're APES. We split off from the monkeys between thirty and forty million years ago; more than halfway back to the age of the dinosaurs.

[RoronoaZoro8]

OK but apes are more closely related to old world monkeys than old world monkeys are to new world monkeys

[NamerOfStars]

Not quite, but functionally.

[RoronoaZoro8]

What do you mean?

[WindAtMyBack]

No. But monkeys and humans are both classified as apes.

[NamerOfStars]

Not quite- we're both primates (which is the word you may have been thinking of), but "ape" and "monkey" are separate categories.

[Chazmatazz269]

Primates, for sure, and we have ancient ancestors that were classified as apes, but not monkeys.

[Astarlessnightsky]

monkeys and human share a common ancestor

[RoronoaZoro8]

So do humans and apes but humans are still apes

[Astarlessnightsky]

If you go back far enough every lifeform shares a common ancestor.

But to be exact, Humans are its own species, as the correct name is Homo sapiens sapiens.

The Species homo is different from other ape monkey species who are devided into
anthropidea, simiae and simiiformes.

The neanderthaler and the modern human are the same, as they are both classified as homo.

[RoronoaZoro8]

Humans are members of the infraroder Simians/Simiformes

[Chazmatazz269]

There is no evidence that everything on Earth was born of the same ancestor. It’s actually highly unlikely. Genetic diversity is the backbone of evolution and it’s impossible to achieve that if literally every organism ever was born of the same organism. Every species would have died out because persistent inbreeding has demonstrated catastrophic results in every study on the subject.

[RoronoaZoro8]

@Chazmatazz269 That isn't true. There is massive genetic evidence for example, there's the fact that the same 3 letter codon specifies the same amino acid in humans and bacteria. Besides LUCA isn't one or two organisms, it's a population of organisms so inbreeding (if they even did reproduce sexually) would be a limited issue.

[IslaTheWitch]

some for sure are :D

[Lessthanaveragr]

Yes, we bring in a zoo

[NathanDavis]

I AM monkey

[Agape93]

Apes

[jahaims]

Read a book

[RoronoaZoro8]

Which one