I hate when people get all snobby like “uhm, humans didn’t EVOLVE from apes, humans and apes share a common ancestor”
Yeah well guess what shitlips, that common ancestor?
an ape. By every taxonomical definition, it would be considered an ape.
.. I mean shit, by taxonomical definition, humans still are apes. They fall under the family Hominidae. We didn’t ditch that branch when we put pants on.
gorillas and chimps are closer relatives to humans then they are to orangutans
We are 100% literally just a very strange, specialised species of great ape. Which I get why some people would find that weird, but remember whales are a highly specialized species of cloven hoofed mammal