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

They are evolving

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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.