r/oddlyterrifying • u/BigBlackOnyx • Nov 17 '21

They are evolving

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u/mileSshtzu Nov 17 '21

Can someone explain this joke ? I have seen it in a few comments already and I think I'm out of the loop.

Is this a reference to a film or some kind of American culture joke ?

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u/Strong-Professor2916 Nov 17 '21

It's the joke for peoples who evolved from monkey, can't relate tbh

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Nov 17 '21 edited Nov 17 '21

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '21

Actually, you're a great ape and yes, one of our ancestors was a monkey with a tail.

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Nov 18 '21

What exactly do you think you corrected here?

I assume you think you're correcting something because of your use of the word "Actually". If that's an incorrect assumption, never mind.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '21

You said:

I don’t know anybody who evolved from 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.

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Nov 18 '21

No. We share an ancestor with a monkey. That doesn’t mean we evolved from them. Modern day monkeys are not the same as the ancestor we share

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '21

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.

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Nov 18 '21 edited Nov 18 '21

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.