Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
They are. There are plenty of other similarities between us and chimps, but diet is not a particularly good example.PsychoSarah said:Also, chimps and many other apes are omnivores, and their diets aren't actually as different as that of humans as you might think.
They are. There are plenty of other similarities between us and chimps, but diet is not a particularly good example.
EternalDragon: Was I right when I said you would accept evolution if we discovered a chimp-like creature with human habits, like weapons and clothes?
True, but humans eat ... well, pretty much anything.PsychoSarah said:They eat fruits, roots, bugs (yes, humans eat bugs too, in many cultures they are a delicacy), occasionally small mammals and more rarely reptiles. Again humans eat those too.
True, but humans eat ... well, pretty much anything.Between humasn and apes, diet is not a particularly good comparison. Heck, even Australopithecines had diets very different from modern humans.
And we both like bannanas so thats a wrap
Funny you should mention banana's.
Picture the delicious chiquita banana you buy at the store...
Now click this and watch what an actual banana REALLY looks like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Inside_a_wild-type_banana.jpg
That nice banana you buy at the store?
Well... it's the product of evolutionary processes. The same processes that people here claim don't exist.
The only difference is the selection process.
Another great example is cabbage derived products. Like brocolli and brussel sprouts, who both descend from the same ancestral wild plant.
Now try changing a banana into an apple. It should be easily accomplished.
No one is claiming those processes don't exist. Now try changing a banana into an apple. It should be easily accomplished.
I am asking why we don't resemble walking apes or walking primates, which we do not.
You know, there's a bit of a different between the variation we see in finches and the variation between housecats and tigers. They're too completely different species. Genetically speaking, they're farther apart than humans are to apes.
I am simply asking why we did not retain primate characteristics if we evolved.
True, but humans eat ... well, pretty much anything.Between humasn and apes, diet is not a particularly good comparison. Heck, even Australopithecines had diets very different from modern humans.
I think ED has unwittingly hit on something possible. Wasn't the initial post about advanced chimps and not chimp ancestors evolving into humans?
Looking at the people in suits we have something with a very similar bone structure, but with a larger brain and upright... sounds well within the realm of possibility.
I don't think being smooth and hairless or losing the muzzle are necessary for intelligence.
However ED seems to think humans and other apes are radically different, it's all in the muzzle... but it turns out the fossils are here to help:
You can see how on these skulls the face is reforming and the muzzle is pulling back.
Lining up skulls so they prove your theory is only evidence that you are lining up skulls so they prove your theory.
Something that occurred to me while I was at work, ED.
Okay, you seem to accept that finches are related, despite their different beaks. And you accept that tigers and housecats are related. And you can even accept that crocodile fish are related to tiktaalik, even though that's completely wrong, but for the sake of argument, we'll pretend it's not.
So you seem to be able to gauge whether two animals are related by comparing their anatomies. But you say, quite often, that similarities aren't evidence of relation. So if that's the case, then how do you determine relation between two animals?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?