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Are we from adam or we are from monkey? if we are somehow like a monkey why the other ones couldn't be humans?
No scientist has suggested that humans evolved from monkeys. Michael Shermer (http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-10-25.html) recently discussed the myth that we came from monkeys. The great apes, monkeys and humans all came from a common ancestor millions of years ago. The ladder of progress concept that goes from bacteria at the bottom to us at the top is a misconception. There is nothing about evolution that says that when a new species evolves, its antecedents should immediately go extinct, but in this case so many millions of years have passed that the common ancestor of humans and other apes is extinct. David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
October 30, 2006
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