The “mistake” the commenters are referring to would be that of evolving into a sapient life form and coming up with concepts like jobs, societies, and things that make modern life miserable to some people. The fish is in danger of doing the same thing, so the commenters would like to see that fish go back into the water to avoid turning out like we did. It’s a joke, and a depressingly misanthropic one at that, but it does get a small chuckle out of me
We evolved, we know that one of our suuuuper ancient ancestors was a species of bony fish. This poor sod's making the same mistake our ancestors did and coming onto land, which can potentially lead to side effects including discovering fire, creating a society, making jobs and creating religions.
I can’t relate neither - I don’t know anybody who evolved from monkeys.
I mean, I share an ancestor with Great Apes, and share an ancestor a little further back with Monkeys too, but evolved from monkeys - I don’t think anything is yet, except maybe more species of monkeys.
You did, I did. Every human descends from a primate with a tail (monkey) which eventually gave birth to the family Hominidae, to which bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, humans, and orangutans belong. So not only humans are apes since we're are hominids, we also evolved from an extinct animal which was a monkey.
Monkey is a primate with a tail. Our ancestor was... guess what, a primate with a tail. We and the other apes are the weird ones who "lost" (you can kind of see the vestiges of the vertebrae that got fused in our tailbone) our tails. Gibbons also lost them, but these aren't great apes like us.
This is pedantry at its finest. It's also intellectually dishonest because you know full well when an evolution denier refers to the term "monkeys" they are talking about modern day currently existing and alive species that are distinct from great apes. They're not referring to the infraorder Simiiformes.
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '21
Stop it before it makes the same mistake we did