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Originally Posted by Joebill
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.
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I've got an idea-- why don't you try
sharing your insights with a professor of a university? They could probably use a good belly-laugh
with you.
What you are claiming is that the common ancestor of
all primates lived 5 to 8 million years ago. That is the time frame for the common ancestor of the primate species
Pan troglodites and the primate species
Homo sapiens. Humans and chimps are
not the only freaking primates, you
gently misinformed individual. It is
blatantly obvious that you do not have a
clue what a primate is and isn't, even after reading a definition, and you are
doing yourself a disservice with every
innocently misinformed post that you make.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0418073440.htm
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=19101213
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/site...ew0/chapter12/
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB...asp?Doi=105145
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-ancient-skull
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...=out-on-a-limb
http://books.google.com/books?id=OQ1...imates&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=TSa...rimates&f=true
http://books.google.com/books?id=i5z...imates&f=false
http://anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprima...t_primates.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evoluti...-primates.html
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...te_discovered/
http://www.answers.com/topic/fossil-primates
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-pdm012307.php
http://www.physorg.com/news161954864.html
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/wal...ateOrigins.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/dh230k203j04149u/
http://www.ltcc.edu/data/ResourcePDF...ctureWeek6.pdf
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mam...ates-info6.htm
http://edoc.bbaw.de/volltexte/2009/1..._03_Martin.pdf
Note that none of those are from Wikipedia.
Why don't you go back and learn some of the absolute basics of evolutionary history before you go off sticking both feet in your mouth again? Such as, oh, I donno, knowing the difference between an "ape" a "primate", for instance? (
This one ain't gonna change)
(Edited to conceal true opinions, by decree of moderation)