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Debates / Re: Evolution: Fact or Theory?
« on: May 18, 2006, 09:59:00 pm »I do believe that they have a common ancestor; I was trying to propose a point. What my post was saying is that it would have been more thesible for mankind to to say that apes were degenerate man, there being racism and hatred in the world. For a long time, Africans and Native Americans were viewed as subhuman because they did not fit the "white standard". For Charles Darwin, a white man, to say that all of humanity, including whites, came from a lesser species not only is radical on a religious level, but on a social level as well.QuoteIn other words, if humanity descended from apes, is not it also possible for apes to have come from humans? I guess that nobody knows that either.
Simple explanation; apes and humans both had a common ancestor.
My other posts and the one that precedes this one show that a common ancestor is not only thesible, but is the most probable.
Yes, height like intelligence is merely hereditary potential. The amount of that potential that is realized more often than not is less.