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Author Topic:   Why are there no human apes alive today?
lyx2no
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Message 56 of 1075 (513064)
06-24-2009 2:45 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Doubletime
06-23-2009 6:41 AM


Really?
So what next ? can i simply surrender and close the discussion ? There are no humans apes alive today, because they all died out while the more primitive monkeys stayed undeveloped and survived. It makes sence.
I agree with with Huntard's Message 52 on this one. You seem to be repeating the same misconception you started with. The only thing missing is the "Yeah, right." and the winky .
What I'd like to see is an:
"Oh! I see now: We and the other great apes had a common ancestor some many millions of years ago; kind of like the kids of my 6x great grandmother's kids going off and having families of their own. Here are the Dobbins, here are the Johansens, here are the Whitcombs Some of the families did well and produced many more families. Some went off and produced few or even no families. We just happen to be on a branch of the family where we're the only direct kin left."
I find it so frustrating when I (and by "I" I mean "RAZD") put so much effort into a proper explanation and get nothing to indicate whether the recipient learned anything more then just to shut-up when not talking to people whom he knows to be stupider then himself.
Please, Doubletime, give us a hint that you're not just going away.
Edited by lyx2no, : Clarity & flow

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.
Thomas Jefferson

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