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.

[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

[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