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Monkey Or Man
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Well, since "man" usually refers to our species, while "monkey" refers to any of a number of species with similar characteristics, I'd say "monkey." Of course, since you're not being too specific, I can't be too precise myself.
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I don't even know that this means anything. What came first was probably something fairly similar to a rat, which branched out into the mammal family. You can get pretty good timelines of the hominid tree, if you want.
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Sense we no longer have a living representive of them, all we can do is speculate.Warrior - for some questions all we can do is speculate. For your question we cannot do even that much. But for most of the important questions the answers can confidently be answered by scientific investigation into nature.
If your question was formed in a way that would give a unique answer from nature, it is quite possible that scientists would already know the answer, and that we could actually look up their research to find it. Your question could mean a thousand different things, so no one is going to touch it. But if you were asking, for instance, whether Homo Sapiens was more recent than any given Gibbon species, the fossil record would indicate that the Gibbons were older, and that there were simian primates roaming the earth long before the hominoids appeared.
So, JohnR7's unfortunate comment aside, for the important questions, we are not left to speculation.
If your question was formed in a way that would give a unique answer from nature, it is quite possible that scientists would already know the answer, and that we could actually look up their research to find it. Your question could mean a thousand different things, so no one is going to touch it. But if you were asking, for instance, whether Homo Sapiens was more recent than any given Gibbon species, the fossil record would indicate that the Gibbons were older, and that there were simian primates roaming the earth long before the hominoids appeared.
So, JohnR7's unfortunate comment aside, for the important questions, we are not left to speculation.
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Not entirely. We can draw conclusions, we can speculate, and, having speculated, we can make predictions and see how they turn out.
So, for instance, let's say I came up with the theory that, rather than being primates at all, humans evolved from the same branch of the mammal family as cats. My theory would predict things with some qualities in common with both humans and cats, and some kind of progression.
When compared to the theory that we came from the hominid tree, my theory comes up very short on evidence. The hominid theory is a better one.
So, while we can speculate, there are things that constrain the results we can maintain plausibly.
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Man is a Germanic word & Monkey is a Latin word. So they do not even come from the same language. The plural of man is men, the germanic language changes the vowel to go from a singlar to a plural. To change monkey to a plural you change the ending of the word, and that is done in latin.
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So now the big question is: which language group came first - the Romance languages or the Germanic languages. This is the key to the problem. The answer is still, of course, the Egg.
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Probably Arabic.
[checking dictionary]
Yep, Arabic is the first language mentioned in mine!
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Both the romance languages and the germanic languages would postdate the Babel division, so that's not really a relevant answer to the question. And I thought rather than "ruins of Babel" people think now that it was a ziggurat?
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