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Are you a Monkey?

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Are we Monkeys? i would say yes. We are Monkeys.

here AronRa making the case for us being monkeys.

 
Define "monkey".

BTW, when I saw the post I misread author's handle as "DOC".

So the post turned out to be very different from what I expected.
 
If we're monkeys on monophyletic grounds, then we're also lemurs (or whatever we might call the ancestral primates), and we're probably also insectivores, and mammals, and therapsids, and aw heck, let's just call ourselves vertebrates, chordates, animals, life . . .
 
The Shrike said:
If we're monkeys on monophyletic grounds, then we're also lemurs (or whatever we might call the ancestral primates), and we're probably also insectivores, and mammals, and therapsids, and aw heck, let's just call ourselves vertebrates, chordates, animals, life . . .
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"We are life..."

Sounds too deep, man. I think I'll just stick with being a monkey.
 
Hist comments on Linnean classification are painful to listen to, as he appears to have no idea what the difference between the Linnean system and the Systema Naturae is.
 
"My uncle is a monkey's uncle, what does that make of me? Halfway between a human being, and a chimpanzee..."
(from a song I wrote..)
 
Then the branch broke and we landed on our collective rump on the savannah and found our poo throwing skills worked even better with rocks.

Not much has changed since, except the rocks got bigger.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
As you can see from the Tree of Life Web Project, the current consensus is we split from the monkey ancestor one significantly large branch back.

Primates

Then gibbons branched off.

And then the Hominidae branch diverged.
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its strange, when i look how they are classified in german, and then take that word " Affe " and translate it, it says Monkey and not Ape.

wjem i look at German classifications, we are Affen, Monkeys

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primaten#Innere_Systematik

not so in english.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate#Classification_of_living_primates

and also parts of the USA they teach the new classifications already, the classification that says we are monkeys.
 
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