DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:
Chimps get
What Chimps are right now are the end product of millions of years
of evolution AWAY from the Common Ancestor, AWAY from the
upright walker & human like hand, AWAY from the ocean...
It's why I personally have always despised "Marine Chimp" or even
"Humans are an ape." It sets a model which just isn't true. It implies
a relationship which if anything is the reverse of truth.
Look. If humans are apes because we evolved from an ape, Chimps
are humans. We're the apes, they're the humans. Because they evolved
from an upright walking ancestor with a hand more like ours than that
of a Chimp.
I'm pretty certain that bipedalism dates back further than gorillas! I
usually say "May" or "Might" or something but I don't see how it could
not be the case. Chimps CERTAINLY did, and Gorillas & Chimps adapted
by much the same way to the forest with their knuckle walking...
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