- 7 days
That’s the exact point OP is making. Humans do primate things because they’re primates.
Yes but OP is right, primates pre-date us so anything we do similarly, they did it first and we copied them.
- 3 days
Chimps didn’t exist when homo erectus appeared.
Still doesn’t seem like you’re getting my point.
Well i meant homo sapiens maybe i was misusing the word humans, but erectus is a different species than us.
- 7 days
As I was running my fingers through my hair, I was struck with I’m just a monkey with delusions of not monkiness.
Ahh… but humans are primates?
So wouldn’t that make both true? Other primates would display human like qualities, while the inverse of ‘humans do primate things’ also holds true?
Well humans are the newest primates so anything we do similar to other primates, they did it first and it’s us who copied them.
- 7 days
No we’re not.
Heck, chimpanzees and bobobos only branched from each other like a million years ago.
Modern day non-humaj primates evolved from common ancestors, just like us.
- 4 days
All the other primates out there that have evolved into their current species over the last million years that we evolved into ours?
We’re all evolving. I don’t know which primate species would be considered the “newest” currently but that’s also probably being revised all the time as we discover more. But I’m sure either we’re not the “latest” or it’s pretty close.
We’re not the latest in some chain of primate species, being the ultimate version. Thats not how evolution works.
Well ultimate meaning last chronologically, yes. Im not an expert but from googling casually, Homo sapiens appeared around 250k years ago and bonobos and chimps about 1.5M years ago. So i think we are chronologically the newest primates to appear, all normative judgments aside.
- Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
All primates doing primate things is exactly what you’d expect primates to do
