this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...
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cocoa-loco @ Mar 12th 2007 2:34PM
this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...