Saying Primates have "human like qualities" is precisely the inverse of what's going on. Human's do "primate things" not the other way around. [Behaviour]

Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org · 5 days

Humans ARE primates.

egrets@lemmy.world · 4 days

That’s the exact point OP is making. Humans do primate things because they’re primates.

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 4 days

Yes but OP is right, primates pre-date us so anything we do similarly, they did it first and we copied them.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 days

We didn’t copy, we are an extended branch of their abilities.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 4 days

ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 days

Which primates? Chimpanzees? They evolved from earlier primates too.

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 4 hours

Yes, chimps also exhibit traits of even earlier primates.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 35 minutes

Chimps didn’t exist when homo erectus appeared.

Still doesn’t seem like you’re getting my point.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 days

As I was running my fingers through my hair, I was struck with I’m just a monkey with delusions of not monkiness.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 5 days

Feels like a weird unnecessary distinction between Humans and other Great Apes like them.

But there certainly are activities unique to humans such as filing taxes.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 5 days

I have no thoughts on the matter, but here’s a couple monkeys I saw this morning.

RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 4 days

They saw what you did and are very disappointed in you.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 days

When I stopped my bike to look at the monkeys, the front wheel slipped on some wet leaves and caught the bike while accidentally revving the engine and hitting my balls on the fuel tank. The monkeys saw it all.

0xKeshara@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 days

Ahh… but humans are primates?

So wouldn’t that make both true? Other primates would display human like qualities, while the inverse of ‘humans do primate things’ also holds true?

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 4 days

Well humans are the newest primates so anything we do similar to other primates, they did it first and it’s us who copied them.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 days

No we’re not.

Heck, chimpanzees and bobobos only branched from each other like a million years ago.

Modern day non-humaj primates evolved from common ancestors, just like us.

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 1 day

What’s a newer primate than humans?

ripcord@lemmy.world · 24 hours

All the other primates out there that have evolved into their current species over the last million years that we evolved into ours?

We’re all evolving. I don’t know which primate species would be considered the “newest” currently but that’s also probably being revised all the time as we discover more. But I’m sure either we’re not the “latest” or it’s pretty close.

We’re not the latest in some chain of primate species, being the ultimate version. Thats not how evolution works.

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 4 hours

Well ultimate meaning last chronologically, yes. Im not an expert but from googling casually, Homo sapiens appeared around 250k years ago and bonobos and chimps about 1.5M years ago. So i think we are chronologically the newest primates to appear, all normative judgments aside.