Re: Chimps & Humans 96% the same genetically

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:24:16 -0700, El Castor
<justuschickens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:02:29 -0700, El Castor
>><justuschickens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>"Poppy - San Francisco Bay Area" <GoldenStatePoppy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds
>>>>
>>>>Stefan Lovgren
>>>>for National Geographic News
>>>>
>>>>August 31, 2005
>>>>Scientists have sequenced the genome of the chimpanzee and found that
>>>>humans are 96 percent similar to the great ape species.
>>>>
>>>>"Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the
>>>>apes-he didn't go far enough," said Frans de Waal, a primate
>>>>scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We are apes in
>>>>every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and
>>>>temperament."
>>>
>>>Actually, it's not accurate to say that we descended from the apes.
>>>Modern apes and human beings share a common ancestor from which we
>>>both descended.
>>
>>
>> Don't be silly. If the Irish-Americans came from Ireland,
>>why are there still people in Ireland?
>>
>It is not silly to say that human beings did not descended from apes.
>Humans and apes share a common ancestor, far more primitive than
>either humans or apes. In the intervening millennia, both humans and
>apes have evolved. Thus, it would not be accurate to say that Homo
>Sapiens evolved from present day apes, such as Chimpanzees or
>Gorillas.


I knew you knew better, I was just having a bit of fun with
possibly the stupidest argument from the anti-evolutionists.

The borderline of "apes" is arbitrary, but if gorillas and
chimps are both "apes", then it seems to me not very
supportable to say we aren't apes too, since we broke
from the gorilla line before we broke away from the chimp
line. We're the same distance from the gorillas as the
chimps are.




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