• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    231
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    And the study was even proven wrong in the 17th century. A finite amount of monkeys already produced Shakespeare in a finite amount of time; it took roughly 55 million years.

    Source: Primates show up in the fossil records, dating to roughly 55mill years. And Shakespeare’s complete works were most likely completed by William Shakespeare, a famous decendant of said primates.

      • Enkrod
        link
        fedilink
        English
        38
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        If baboons and macaques are monkeys, and if howlermonkeys and spidermonkeys are monkeys, humans MUST be monkeys.

        Because they can ONLY both be monkeys if their common ancestor was also a monkey and we share that very same common ancestor. In fact we are closer related to macaques and baboons than to spidermonkeys, which means we share a more recent common ancestor with old world monkeys than both us and the other old world monkeys share with the new world monkeys.

        Cladistically, you can not outgrow your ancestry.

        Humans are apes, apes are a subgroup of monkeys, monkeys are a subgroub of primates.

          • Enkrod
            link
            fedilink
            English
            1
            edit-2
            1 day ago

            Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

            There is no such thing for trees, because “tree” is a botanical classification, not a cladistical one.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              220 hours ago

              Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

              Yes but who says that specific clade maps to the colloquial taxonomic word “monkey”?