Agobot writes:
So what gives you even the slightest idea that 58 million years is not enough time for an ape-like creature to evolve into a man?
This wasn't his argument. He was arguing
ape-to-man, not
Plesiadapis-to-man. Behold:
txchvs writes:
My position is simply that the ape brain had neither the time for [sic] the means to develop into a modern human brain.
The word "ape" is reserved for Hominidae + gibbons. The word is not interchangeable with "monkey," nor with "primate."
However, I think apes evolved in the Miocene, giving them a maximum of about 20 million years to evolve into modern humans. So, I agree with you that they had enough time.
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