I have no thoughts on the matter, but here’s a couple monkeys I saw this morning.
Ahh… but humans are primates?
So wouldn’t that make both true? Other primates would display human like qualities, while the inverse of ‘humans do primate things’ also holds true?
Humans are in the set of primates, but not all primates are human.
Well humans are the newest primates so anything we do similar to other primates, they did it first and it’s us who copied them.
No we’re not.
Heck, chimpanzees and bobobos only branched from each other like a million years ago.
Modern day non-humaj primates evolved from common ancestors, just like us.
What’s a newer primate than humans?
All the other primates out there that have evolved into their current species over the last million years that we evolved into ours?
We’re all evolving. I don’t know which primate species would be considered the “newest” currently but that’s also probably being revised all the time as we discover more. But I’m sure either we’re not the “latest” or it’s pretty close.
We’re not the latest in some chain of primate species, being the ultimate version. Thats not how evolution works.
Well ultimate meaning last chronologically, yes. Im not an expert but from googling casually, Homo sapiens appeared around 250k years ago and bonobos and chimps about 1.5M years ago. So i think we are chronologically the newest primates to appear, all normative judgments aside.
The human monkey is easy to spot from its belief that it is not a monkey nor even an animal.
As I was running my fingers through my hair, I was struck with I’m just a monkey with delusions of not monkiness.
The other catarrhine monkeys don’t have umbrellas, though, so we’re clearly superior.
I also like our use of electricity and air conditioning!
^this
All primates doing primate things is exactly what you’d expect primates to do
In Prometheus Rising it is described that instead of dabbing poop at the edges of our territories, we just dab ink on borders.
