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Posted On: 10/28/2023 12:28:22 PM
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Can you tell us a little about your weakness for straw man arguments?
It sure as hell doesn't surprise me that a group of ignorant 19th century Confederate treason weasels would misstate Darwin's argument, nor am I surprised that you would pass it along.
A more pertinent question is from whence Trumpanzees? No self-respecting chimp would claim kinship.
In his book 'The Descent of Man' published in 1871, English naturalist Charles Darwin presented the idea that human beings and apes have a common ancestor. Contrary to common perception, which is reflected in Mr. Singh's statement, Darwin did not say that humans directly evolved from apes. Jan 21, 2018
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/scien...od-theory/
Thus, at the time, The Descent of Man was considered a late intervention in this field, when the problem of human evolution was already the subject of wide discussion. But both Huxley’s and Darwin’s works made it clear what the concept was: humans and other primates descended from a “common progenitor,” from “some lower form,” not the former from the latter.
The confusion has reached the present day, leading many people to believe that apes such as chimpanzees, orangutans or gorillas are frustrated human designs, like species that got stuck halfway through their evolution—The Planet of the Apes—and did not progress any further.
This is a wholly mistaken view, since both they and we have travelled evolutionary paths of the same length, albeit divergent. One study found that there are in fact more genes that have undergone positive natural selection in the chimpanzee genome than in the human one, so technically it could be said that chimps have actually evolved more than us.
And certainly have evolved more than Trumpanzees.
It sure as hell doesn't surprise me that a group of ignorant 19th century Confederate treason weasels would misstate Darwin's argument, nor am I surprised that you would pass it along.
A more pertinent question is from whence Trumpanzees? No self-respecting chimp would claim kinship.
In his book 'The Descent of Man' published in 1871, English naturalist Charles Darwin presented the idea that human beings and apes have a common ancestor. Contrary to common perception, which is reflected in Mr. Singh's statement, Darwin did not say that humans directly evolved from apes. Jan 21, 2018
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/scien...od-theory/
Thus, at the time, The Descent of Man was considered a late intervention in this field, when the problem of human evolution was already the subject of wide discussion. But both Huxley’s and Darwin’s works made it clear what the concept was: humans and other primates descended from a “common progenitor,” from “some lower form,” not the former from the latter.
The confusion has reached the present day, leading many people to believe that apes such as chimpanzees, orangutans or gorillas are frustrated human designs, like species that got stuck halfway through their evolution—The Planet of the Apes—and did not progress any further.
This is a wholly mistaken view, since both they and we have travelled evolutionary paths of the same length, albeit divergent. One study found that there are in fact more genes that have undergone positive natural selection in the chimpanzee genome than in the human one, so technically it could be said that chimps have actually evolved more than us.
And certainly have evolved more than Trumpanzees.
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