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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
That's a common misperception about evolution. Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Monkeys, apes and humans evolved from from the same ancestor species (which wasn't a monkey) - we just branched off at different points.
People seem to think that evolution has some kind of goal and that species are always "improving", but really, they are just adapting to their environment. There is no perfection. The idea that monkeys are less "perfect" or less evolved, is not true. They are no more or less evolved than humans.
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Good vid explaining this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li...eal/e_s_5.html
