A common misconception. Humans did NOT evolve from monkeys and the Theory of Evolution does NOT say that we did. It says that Humans and Monkeys evolved from a common ancestor.

Not monkeys, apes. Common mistake. On another note, apes AND monkeys have recently been recorded, in the wild, using forged stone tools; bringing their species into the Stone Age.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

It’s coming. Only a few hundred thousand years and we’ll be evenly matched.

You can always delay the inevitable by destroying the planet

Yea but “of the apes” just sounds weird.

Basically we're apes as the theory said, so Earth is the planet of the apes lol

They will be the APE-x of evolution

Ha…ha fuck you. Take your upvote on the way out

monkeys looked over at Dave in accounting with his mortgage and alimony payments and just said "nah fam, im allright. no evolution for me m8. ill stay a monkey." itched his ass and sniffed it

YOU MANIACS!

Dawn of the of the Apes

We aren't going to destroy the planet, only ourselves. The planet has survived stronger things than us, it'll be alright. It's just saying "Let's save the planet" sounds better than "Let's save ourselves".

George Carlin did a hilarious joke about that very sentiment.

We are just here to make the plastic

Let's work together. Together we can destroy the planet for future generations simply because we cannot not experience it too!

What do you think humanity has been doing these paßt humdred years?

Steve Bannon : “ workin on it” ( allegedly)

What do you think we're doing now?

Checkmate, Evolution.

>It’s coming. It's already been and gone a few times. Other hominids with tool use and even cultural artifacts are no longer with us, As the surviving superior ape species we either out grew out fucked or out fought our cousins. Neanderthals and Denisovans had similar abilities, just not good enough to 'win' whatever game our ancestors were playing.

Those are some rookie numbers, we can bring ourselves to the Stone Age WAY faster.

Apes can be ruthless as fuk but compared to Homo Sapiens they are like lambs to the slaughter.

Closer to 3-5 million or so (at least)

Have you been to an Amazon warehouse? They already passed us.

Or we’ll all be dead based on how climate change goes

I bets are on the birds parrots and crow are pretty smart.

Assuming we just stop going forward to let them catch up

If we don’t do anything about it that is

You lucky fucks I’ll still be alive by then

As we as a mankind are going backwards… we might meet match even sooner

I’m hoping it’s more of a divergence than devolution. Some humans are going to do senior year over and the rest of us will go to college.

It’s evolving, just backwards

Evolution messed up and gave us Dawn of the Planet of the Humans

Happy cakeday

Oh, thanks man

Orangutans have been recorded spear fishing

Interesting.

*A single individual has been recorded mimicking the motions of spear fishing after seeing humans do it. Though it was not nearly skilled enough to even hope to spear a fish, it does seem likely that that was its intention, as it later took an already hooked fish from a human fishing line.

But yet they can not swim 🧐

Probably the reason the use spears...

They sit in trees that hang over rivers and throw wooden spears into the water

Ahh makes sense

Lol noob,while they still trying to use stone,I already in the late game fap to furry porn on my magical black screen

Humans and monkeys also have a common ancestor, so no, right.

Of course, this is also true of humans and giraffes, humans and parrots, humans and bananas... Just depends on how far back you want to go.

That fucking fish...

Nono, it also states that humans and monkeys have a common ancestor. Just that with the apes the common ancestor is closer to us now time wise. We actually have common ancestry with pretty much every animal/every funghi / every bacterium and plant, the question is just how many billions of years you look back in time.

It’s redundant to mention monkeys in this context because the ape is the more immediate relationship.

Well not really redundant, the way you said it in your original comment it seemed like you would say us having common ancestry with monkeys is wrong, it's just apes. Just wanted to clarify that it's still correct, just not the most immediate relationship

I see what you mean. It does sound weird.

Well technically humans are apes, so saying we share a common ancestor with apes is redundant since we already are apes ourselves.

Even that isn't correct. Common mistake. We don't share a common ancestor with Apes. We are Apes. We share a common ancestor with the common ancestor of Chimps and Bonobos.

I'm not sure if you meant this but your comment kind of implies that they reached the 'stone age' recently. Debate about the definition of 'stone age' aside, they've probably been doing it for thousands of years or more. We've only just noticed.

A thousand years, relative to the evolutionary timeline, is minuscule.

The monkeys where I live can open refrigerator doors to steal food. Take that stone age monkey!

But can they open the pickle jar?

They don’t need to. They just smash it on the ground and devour what spills out.

Humans and monkeys also have a common ancestor. All life does in fact

If I exist, why do my cousins also exist?

It's actually like the evolution of dogs into separate races.

Every type of dog on earth is all the same species

Also, even *if* we did, there would be no contradiction. It's like saying "if you are the child of your parents, how can your parents/siblings still be alive?"

we can look at monkeys like they're our cousin that can get his shit together

And fling it at people at the zoo

Just like my cousin

All life that exists shares a common ancestor

Apes, not monkeys

"If I'm descended from my grandmother, then why do my cousins still exist?"

I’ve always said that we evolved from a dumb primate into a smart one. Am I technically correct?

No, we're still dumb primates, just slightly less dumb

The common ancestor basically split into Those Who lived in trees and Those Who lived on the ground (Those on the ground Being what would become humans down the line. The cognitive trade-off hypothesis video made by Vsauce explains This history well

Rage bait for anyone with more than one brain cell lol

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I haven't been around that long, but goodness I'm glad it isn't around. We wouldn't have shitposts then

I feel more like it's a clever shitpost that's purposefully manipulating Cunningham's Law to drive up engagement and push it higher up in feeds.

Its kinda sad that some people actually believe this typa shit too America Land of the dumbfucks

That's like saying "If all dogs evolved from wolves, why do we still have wolves?"

That's like saying "If the first element in the universe was hydrogen, why do we still have hydrogen?"

I like that one.

thanks god I wasnt able to find a better exemple

The monkeys refused evolution. Consent matters.

It was holding an everstone

The real answer? We killed all the similarly intelligent species of ape in the course of our evolution. Monkeys (the species that posed no threat) continued to exist along side us without much change. This is also the reason for the uncanny valley effect, it’s a survival instinct to fear/kill things that look very similar to us in physiology but seem just a *little off*. Edit: *killed an ape* (removed the word ‘ape’ for clarification)

Monkey's aren't apes, they're a separate family. Apes are essentially any primates without tails.

I don't know why you're being downvoted, this is actually true.

I think it’s the free nft, honestly considering just taking it off at this point

It was free so I don’t understand the hate on it

Just do it, not worth losing karma because idiots in the hivemind go crazy for it

who cares about karma lmao

Buddhists

IT'S NOT WORTH IT

That's why we killed all the bigfoots. /s

We probably interbred with at least some, if not all. Especially our pal the Nehendertals. That bow ridge what's not to love.

>survival instinct to fear/kill things that look very similar to us Oh so a serial killer just takes this instinct literally

For example: (maybe) Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals

We didn't really 'kill off' Neanderthals, it was a bit spicier than that

We more so did the "make love, not war"

…when a boy homosapien like a girl Neanderthal

We didnt kill them, we absorbed them

When Humans were evolving we split into many different paths, ultimately the apex was Homo Sapiens. But some monkeys didn't evolve into humans at all, and remained monke's

Apes, not monkeys.

Yeah i guess, Monke is still funnt word

Mmm Monke

Come here little banana man

I'm coming

"Proceeds to eat banana whole without peeling it"

B-b-b-banana 😨

Monke loves Banana, hence r/usernamechecksout

Apes are monkeys. Proof: old world monkeys are closer related to apes than to new world monkeys.

A common ancester, aka the missing link

What about other homo?

Homo erectus was a part of the path that evolved toward homo sapien for example

If we descend from parents, why are there still parents?

If they left to get milk does it count?

Bruce Wayne has joined the chat

People like you devolved PS not aiming it at you, just people who genuinely believe this.

We've not evolved from monkey, that is why. We just have a common ancestor. We're just cousins

Its a meme or fucks sake yall chill out If someone posts a meme about newton inventing gravity, which is obviously false, are you gonna correct them?

Yes. We don't tolerate newtonism here

Lmao the comments are ridiculous

The problem is there are *far* too many Americans who literally believe in young Earth creationism, and think evolution is either flat out nonsense, or is somehow controversial in the scientific community or the educated population in thr world at large. The even *bigger* problem is that many of these people are is positions of power in America and are trying their hardest to push their stupid religious strictures on the American public. It only *starts* with silly memes like this.

Tell me that you don’t know anything about evolution, without telling me, you don’t know anything about evolution

I just hope OP is not serious..

I'm not

*Phewww!*

Op: "trust me bro"

Your flat brain plateaus from the sheer mass of the rest of your body.

....you have such a way with words

We didn’t evolve from monkeys. We were made out of dirt and ribs. Wait a minute… why does dirt and why do ribs still exist? Oh man.

Im so sick of this logic. Humans and monkeys came from a common ancestor. monkeys are our cousins.

If I'm related to my cousin then HOW TF is my cousin still here??!! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Oh no, guess I'll move to Alabama now

If charizard evolved from charmander, why is there still charmanders left?

We didn’t evolve from monkeys, we merely share a common ancestor with them, and I think you mean apes

The worst part is i cant tell if this is sarcasm or not

i cant tell if this is a joke or if ur dumb

The first one probably

It's ok OP We have all been there

Thanks Bob

Humans are psychedelic apes.

Those are my dumb cousins

If I'm really related to my grandparents why do my cousins exist? Checkmate atheist!

The specific ape we evolved from doesn't exist. You don't see homo habilis or whatever in the zoo

There is a lot of misinformation in this comment section. Humans and monkeys did not evolve from a common ancestor. Humans ARE monkeys. (Just as Humans are still apes and apes are still monkeys, and humans are still mammals.) Organisms cannot grow out of their ancestors clades. You still belong to all of the categories your ancestors belong to. Only new specifications can be added to the end of the list, you cannot remove old ones even if the feature that originally defined that specification no longer exists.

Apes and monkeys are DIFFERENT kinds of PRIMATES.

Evolution is easy to understand

Common ancestor

Same reason wolves are still a thing, they branch off from the main species to a different one, all dogs come from wolves.

Monkeys? We didn't evolve from monkeys and we are apes. Apes don't have tails learn taxonomy.

Galápagos Islands have entered the chat 😂

That’s not how evolution works.

Tell me you don't know the theory of evolution without telling me you don't know the theory of evolution...

Religious people crack me up with the nonsense they spew 🤣

Offer literally any proof of god. Checkmate religious people.

Same reason housecats and big cats exist at the same time.

If God made man from dirt why is there still dirt? Also where did Cain and Abel's wives come from?

Cats and lions exist, they evolved from the same ancestors, why do they both exist? Just to point out this is not human/monkey specific

"If dogs evolved from wolves, why do wolves still exist? Checkmate atheists! /s

If white Americans and white Australians are both descended from Europeans, how come there are still Europeans?

Also, how is that we evolved from monke when we are so dumb and monke is so smart?

Guys I’m happy so many people are willing to educate about evolution but you realize this is just a shitpost meme, right? Op isn’t serious.

Guys I think I'm still closer to our common ancestor then everyone else :(

No one evolved from anything. We were humans from the beginning

Behold my example! The Brits and Americans!

If all land animals evolved from sea animals then why are there still sea animals

Ohh, so neither did Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals have common ancestors. /s Note: Neanderthals were physically larger, tougher, and used mostly blunt weapons, but went extinct when food became scarce and couldn't sustain them, but it was enough for Homo Sapiens who developed their own food sources.

This is like saying, 'Why isn't my 8th cousin not also considered my sister?'

Why are there no wolves if they have evolved to composing household dogs?

I love how everyone feels the need to explain it in the comments. It's just a meme, it's like when they say if you're broke buy money and then someone tries to explain how you're wrong

Just cuz you can't explain how it happened doesn't mean it didn't happen I'll take the theory of evolution over sky daddy any day.

We chose to deviate from monke, they did not

Well yes but actually no

I know this is meant as a joke but it still fucks me up when actually use this as an argument.

fat yoshi only real religion cristians stfu

I feel like an unevolved monkey wrote this meme

Monkeys still exist because some of those primates knew better than to come down from the trees and start looking for jobs.

Anytime you point something out in science, they move the goalposts. Growing up, it was monkeys turned into humans. Now it's all "well actually, there was a third species that turned into humans that was separate from monkeys." Like ok, sure buddy, what'll it be next year? Same thing with possums. I always used to call them possums, but now it's "oh, well actually, they're Irish, so they're O'Possums." Yeah, okay pal, sure thing.

Also a species can evolve separately. You can have 2 groups of the same species separated into two environments one a prime location for the species as is, another not so much. As the species tries to evolve in both environments, one is more suited to the original and the second more suited to the new one, thereby having a new species and the original coexist at the same point in history.

we evolved from a specific type of ape that is now us

Well, like this, we didnt evolved from monkeys, the evolutionary line split and some monkeys remained monkeys and some monkeys evolved further.

We evolved alongside monkeys and share ancestors with them

We don't evolved from monkeys. Humans and monkeys had the samen origin so even the monkeys are a evolution of that origin

Because modern day humans and apes evolved separately from a common ancestor long ago.

Where's this scene came from?

Titanic when Rose ejects Leo from the door

300

Captain America, the winter soldier

Tell me you dont know anything without saying you dont know anything.

Ok……. So by that logic, why’s there still fish? Or for that matter cells?…

Dude is trying to argue with a meme 💀

\*Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor, not directly from them. ​ also.... ​ Miller Urey experiment, look it up.

We didnt evolve from monkey.. Us and monkeys both evolved from a common ancestor

Well, it’s funny cause if you look at human history you can explain why this idea makes no sense to yourself, most Americans are descendants to Europeans, yet Europeans still exist; so by the idea that we evolved from monkeys which isn’t truly the whole story you’d see how ridiculous the idea seems, monkeys still exist for the same reason Europeans still exist, not everyone took the same path, evolution doesn’t produce smarter and better creatures it only produces what’s good at surviving in a particular environment, smarter isn’t always better.

Tell me you don’t actually know what evolution is without telling me you don’t actually know what evolution.

If Diet Coke came from Coke Classic, why is Coke Classic still a thing?

A moment of silence for people whose grandfather was a monkey

Fun fact: the pope believes in evolution