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Moiraine · 01-23-2003, 02:19 PM

Chimpanzees have not evolved less than humans, they have evolved differently.

Chimpanzees are not our ancestors, but our cousins. Think of an "Y" with humans on top of one branch, chimpanzees on top of the other, and our common ancestor at the bottom branch. The two branches diverged between 10 and 5 millions of yeard ago, and we share more than 99.5 % of our genes with them.

When I asked "Are the chimpanzees our future ?" I was not suggesting the human race would evolve into something like Chimpanzees, but that if we blow ourselves over the Chimpanzees may become the best chance for our gene pool to survive.

Also keep in mind that we currently know about Chimpanzees, we know using human tools. We teach Chimpanzees to talk our deaf language (is that the word ?), we don't communicate with them with their own language. Lots of things are lost in communication. Probably there are things they can do and we can't. Through all you say they don't do, maybe they have a bigger potential for happiness ?

Yorick, all the things you say that Chimpanzees don't do, our long ago ancestors didn't do either. But the potential was there. Chimpanzees's evolution probably won't make them 'human' as in similar to us. They laugh and cry, they are conscious of self, they live with each other, they learn - the potential is here. [img]smile.gif[/img]

01-23-2003, 02:19 PM	#22
Moiraine Anubis Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Up in the Freedomland Alps Age: 59 Posts: 2,474	Chimpanzees have not evolved less than humans, they have evolved differently. Chimpanzees are not our ancestors, but our cousins. Think of an "Y" with humans on top of one branch, chimpanzees on top of the other, and our common ancestor at the bottom branch. The two branches diverged between 10 and 5 millions of yeard ago, and we share more than 99.5 % of our genes with them. When I asked "Are the chimpanzees our future ?" I was not suggesting the human race would evolve into something like Chimpanzees, but that if we blow ourselves over the Chimpanzees may become the best chance for our gene pool to survive. Also keep in mind that we currently know about Chimpanzees, we know using human tools. We teach Chimpanzees to talk our deaf language (is that the word ?), we don't communicate with them with their own language. Lots of things are lost in communication. Probably there are things they can do and we can't. Through all you say they don't do, maybe they have a bigger potential for happiness ? Yorick, all the things you say that Chimpanzees don't do, our long ago ancestors didn't do either. But the potential was there. Chimpanzees's evolution probably won't make them 'human' as in similar to us. They laugh and cry, they are conscious of self, they live with each other, they learn - the potential is here. [img]smile.gif[/img] __________________ [img]\"http://grumble.free.fr/img/romuald.gif\" alt=\" - \" /><br /><br />The missing link between ape and man is us.