Proteins, Apes & Us (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 05, 2012, 15:16 (4616 days ago) @ dhw


> I am puzzled by the reasoning here. A change in the vertebrae...longer arms...so the creature from which we descended lived in the trees, did not have an upright posture, and had longer arms. Sounds like an ape to me. So how does that make apes descendants of humans?-First were ancient ape-like creatures. All of us primates came from apeness. Long arms, stooped knuckle-draging, tiny-brained. The only logical evolution from four-legged to upright. Split into three lines, hominin, gorilla, and chimp, after monkeys split off. Hominin kept changing, gorilla and chimpness did not. Hominin went to hominid to Homo. All fetuses look like us. We dominate the evolutionary drive. When we came to a fork in the road only we took the ongoing road. We are the main line and even created four different Homos, and perhaps more as fossils turn up. It is a matter of perspective. I'm sure chimps would not agree with me.