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9 Responses to “Thought for the day”

1. Mark Wadsworth, on December 19th, 2009 at 22:16 Said:

   You may as well ask why we still have viruses, bacteria or earthworms. It’s because each species occupies a particular niche; either other life forms depend on their existence or they depend on other life forms.

   In most parts of the world, the number of humans and the number of apes has reached a level where neither is crowding out the other. We don’t want to live in trees in the jungle and monkeys don’t want to drill for oil in Siberia or the North Sea, for example.

   
   
2. Ross, on December 19th, 2009 at 22:25 Said:

   We didn’t evolve from apes, but from a common archaic human-ape ancestor.

   
   
3. WittteringsfromWitney, on December 19th, 2009 at 23:09 Said:

   James,

   I think you will find that the reason we still have monkeys and apes is that they have metamorphosed into politicians (with the obligatory rebranding of course)

   
   
4. CherryPie, on December 19th, 2009 at 23:19 Said:

   They are more intelligent than humans aand trialling the evolution of the species Experiments, don’t we just love them

   
   
5. Welshcakes Limoncello, on December 20th, 2009 at 00:00 Said:

   Do you know, I never thought about that!

   
   
6. MTG, on December 20th, 2009 at 08:27 Said:

   The misconception is widespread. None of us have a monkey for a common ancestor.

   Even more confusing is the humanoid appearance of simians when they are dressed in police uniforms and allowed to drive vehicles on our roads.

   
   
7. jams O'Donnell, on December 20th, 2009 at 08:57 Said:

   AH we are not evolved from the monkeys and apes we see but from ancestors. We evolved as have monkeys and apes

   
   
8. APL, on December 20th, 2009 at 10:24 Said:

   Ross says: “We didn’t evolve from apes,”

   MTG says: “The misconception is widespread. None of us have a monkey for a common ancestor.”

   Jams O’D: “we are not evolved from the monkeys and apes ..”

   A trokia of common sense, the ‘we are all evolved from monkeys and apes’ meme is really starting to tick me off.

   
   
9. Lord T, on December 20th, 2009 at 16:32 Said:

   If only Darwin was here to add these new theories into his book and bring it up to date.