Next time I see the professors from university, I'll tell them you told me humans aren't primates. I'm sure they'll find it amusing.
You must not have noticed I did go look it up and changed it to 5-8 million years for the divergance.
Around 60-90 million years ago, the mammal's ancestor was a small rodent-like creature. I don't know of anyone saying Primates/Apes went back that far.
As for ignorance, I have read over 10,000 books in my lifetime. Around 60 percent of them being the sciences and history. I watch Discovery Science multiple times per week. Along with what ever paleontology and archaeology documentaries I can find.
I have never claimed I'm perfect. But yet I am not ignorant. Far from it.
I'll point out that the majority of the people over the decades who have claimed I was ignorant didn't like something I said.
Myself, I would be more likely to say someone was misinformed and point them to a reference. But that reference wouldn't be Wikipedia under any circumstances.
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