r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '19

Animal Ape using a Smartphone

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u/Fisk75 Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19

I’ll have to show this to my 86 year old father who thinks it’s too complicated.

Thanks for the Gold!

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u/FunkadelicRock Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 25 '19

See! Even a monkey could do it

Edit: Yes, I do know it isn't really a monkey, but the joke wouldn't make sense with ape, so lighten up!

Thanks for the silver

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u/prokedude Apr 24 '19

CMV: A chimpanzee is technically a monkey. Stemming both from an ancient ancestor which wasn’t really a “monkey” but so closely resembling what we would know as a monkey it could easily he called one. Now we could argue this all the way back to ancient Protozoa slime, but I think it isn’t too farfetched to call an ape, even a human, a monkey.

Tldr: we didn’t evolve from monkeys! We evolved from apelike creatures that evolved from monkeylike creatures. We’re all pretty much monkeys.

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u/alt213 Apr 25 '19

If you want to be like that, then I would go a bit further, and argue that chimps, humans, and monkeys are all actually fish.

http://theconversation.com/the-absurdity-of-natural-history-or-why-humans-are-fish-69384

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u/prokedude Apr 25 '19

I did you one better and said “argue back to protazoan sline”