thread: 2006-07-25 : Interactive again too
On 2006-07-27, Ron Edwards wrote:
Argh! Almost-right biology punches my buttons.
Humans aren't just *related to* apes; we *are* apes.
Funky terminology, reflecting long-overdue sense and rigor, established only within the last decade, because we are such idiots:
Order Primates, which includes
Family Pongidae (all the apes), which includes
Subfamily Homininae (this is us + Australopithecus and similar nifties)
This terminology reflects evolutionary/cladistic history as indicated by gross anatomy, behavior, DNA, RNA, mDNA, serology, and more. Gorillas, chimps, orangutans, and gibbons are the *other* apes, not *the* apes.
Creationists, pucker up and kiss my ape (not merely ape-*like*) ass.
