Aren't we just really intelligent, less hairy apes?

Congrats. You see the ways of the world.

You could practically make that analogy with any animal. It just so happens they look similar to us...

If you think about it, we are all just that. People often forget that, and make things more complicated than they need to be. War, for example is really just a bunch of rival ape families fighting over bannanas. The same could be said for politics. The apes with no bannanas will always want to take from the apes that do, this is why governments were formed. JuiceCakeOoh

Soon non of us will have bananas because of a virus which is killing the banana population. what happens then?JPOBS

i'm not intelligent in any way,your argument fails therefor.

Well, if evolution is correct, we were apes.QWERTYCommander

I had figured that one out by the time I was 10 years old. Nothing has changed since then.

I am not a disgusting hairless ape.

If you think about it, we are all just that. People often forget that, and make things more complicated than they need to be. War, for example is really just a bunch of rival ape families fighting over bannanas. The same could be said for politics. The apes with no bannanas will always want to take from the apes that do, this is why governments were formed. JuiceCakeOoh

Pretty much.

[QUOTE="QWERTYCommander"]Well, if evolution is correct, we were apes.darkspineslayer

"We" probably are. The others aresome kind of mix breed between ape & human. The most distinguishing feature is the more common breed can talk just as we can but their intelligence is inferior when compared to an ape's.

Ever read This Simian World by Clarence Day? That's basically the entire gist of the book.

"We" probably are. The others aresome kind of mix breed between ape & human. The most distinguishing feature is the more common breed can talk just as we can but their intelligence is inferior when compared to an ape's.

MagnumPI

No, just humans. Might have been hairier but have always been humans. That's like saying a cat and a dog at one point looked the same...

I guess you could category us as apes...

I don't see how you can change one specie to another. ...but then again birds are similar to dinos.

Well, if evolution is correct, we were apes.QWERTYCommander

No... if anything, you just proved you know next to nothing about evolution.

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"We" probably are. The others aresome kind of mix breed between ape & human. The most distinguishing feature is the more common breed can talk just as we can but their intelligence is inferior when compared to an ape's.

-Big_Red-

More than OT even means... we are as ape-ish as you can imagine... everything we do socially is observed in primeape populations...

More than OT even means... we are as ape-ish as you can imagine... everything we do socially is observed in primeape populations...

heysharpshooter

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More than OT even means... we are as ape-ish as you can imagine... everything we do socially is observed in primeape populations...

ColonelWilks

Honestly...lolwut? If there is a joke there, its past me... something to do with The Wizard of Oz...

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More than OT even means... we are as ape-ish as you can imagine... everything we do socially is observed in primeape populations...

heysharpshooter

Honestly...lolwut? If there is a joke there, its past me... something to do with The Wizard of Oz...

And if you look deeper we're just a bunch of cells joined together with chemical reactions happening inside.

You can extend that to anything living.

[QUOTE="QWERTYCommander"]Well, if evolution is correct, we were apes.darkspineslayer

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[QUOTE="ColonelWilks"] Primeape populations? Toto, we're not in Kanto any more...ColonelWilks

Honestly...lolwut? If there is a joke there, its past me... something to do with The Wizard of Oz...

O I C... well, spelling is not a strong suite of mine... especially on the interwebz... yet it does little to dispute my argument...

[QUOTE="ColonelWilks"][QUOTE="heysharpshooter"]

Honestly...lolwut? If there is a joke there, its past me... something to do with The Wizard of Oz...

heysharpshooter

O I C... well, spelling is not a strong suite of mine... especially on the interwebz... yet it does little to dispute my argument...

And if you look deeper we're just a bunch of cells joined together with chemical reactions happening inside.

Vesica_Prime

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[QUOTE="ColonelWilks"] Primeape is a pokemon. You're thinking of "primate."ColonelWilks

O I C... well, spelling is not a strong suite of mine... especially on the interwebz... yet it does little to dispute my argument...

Serial murder is a form of extremely violent behavior, which is something observed in all ape's... baboon males will sometimes be so violent, they will be driven out of family units and forced to live by themselves... kind of like sending a murder to jail...

One group of chimpanzees will attack and kill every member of another group of chimpanzees includuing females and infants, and eat the dead chimps, for seemingly no reason at times... they even organzie in squads and use loose battle tactics... similar to genocide, although on a smaller scale...

Toxic mortages, you got me there... but is that such a bad thing...

[QUOTE="ColonelWilks"][QUOTE="heysharpshooter"]

O I C... well, spelling is not a strong suite of mine... especially on the interwebz... yet it does little to dispute my argument...

heysharpshooter

Serial murder is a form of extremely violent behavior, which is something observed in all ape's... baboon males will sometimes be so violent, they will be driven out of family units and forced to live by themselves... kind of like sending a murder to jail...

One group of chimpanzees will attack and kill every member of another group of chimpanzees includuing females and infants, and eat the dead chimps, for seemingly no reason at times... they even organzie in squads and use loose battle tactics... similar to genocide, although on a smaller scale...

Toxic mortages, you got me there... but is that such a bad thing...

If you think about it, we are all just that.JuiceCakeOoh

You mean if I put as much thought into it as you did.

Do animals have war? Do they have governments? If I can make an analogy of something, does that mean the analogy and the object of my analogy are identical?

[QUOTE="JuiceCakeOoh"]If you think about it, we are all just that.Palantas

You mean if I put as much thought into it as you did.

Do animals have war? Do they have governments? If I can make an analogy of something, does that mean the analogy and the object of my analogy are identical?

Yes on the first 2... no on the last one... thats the difference between us and other apes...

Well, if evolution is correct, we were apes.QWERTYCommander

[QUOTE="JuiceCakeOoh"]If you think about it, we are all just that.Palantas

You mean if I put as much thought into it as you did.

Do animals have war? Do they have governments? If I can make an analogy of something, does that mean the analogy and the object of my analogy are identical?

We're accidents of the universe who give ourselves too much credit.ColonelWilks