It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: apes
Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo
habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are
the only surviving species.
Tags: history human anthropology apes hominids
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Charles DarwinTags: man humanity belief evolution superstition humans sacrifice torture slavery apes great-apes ape preference great-ape
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