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My friend asked me this and I didn't really know to say...
(post your answers below)

We did evolve from a genus of ape like mammal some 4 to 5 million yrs ago.
Grass plains in africa forced them to walk more upright to spot food and predators.
That envoirmental condition caused an evolution to the homo genus ( upright walking ) and other ape like genuses evolved to their enviormental conditions to the ape of today.

Somewhat scary to think that we are all Homos.

But I prefer to think of myself as a sapien sapien.

The single sapiens died out with the neandrathals..

Going by memorey here but I think that is it!!

You are all a bunch of Homos

Hey Just Looking At Your Post Saw Villa Badge You Support Them?
Cus If You o You My Good Sir Are A ****ing Legend

I think he's mad because a mod closed his thread..

no lol, they're just the team i prefer in premier league. Leeds fan here

should have the lower league badges

Leeds Eh Fair Play My Older Brother Supports Leeds

Put It in Site Suggestion An PM A Couple Of Admins I would Back You And I'm Sure Loads Of Other People Would

It's A Good Idea, There All American Stuff On Here We Need Some More Things For Us People In England.

Heres a little explanation though which should clear up your question.. Its a little long, but trust me, its worth it.

Humans *are* apes, descended from earlier apes. Our closest relatives are chimpanzees, and the most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

Suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance.

This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

In short, chimps/monkeys/apes were once together, then through natural events, split into different locations. Each location had different climates, food sources, resources, etc. Each group of monkeys adapted to the environment and evolved. A certain group of these "Groups" evolved into what we are today.


Hope that answers your question bro.

someones been watching movies :carling::carling:

Ugh. Here comes a massive debate about God.

im sure if someone made the images (25x25px) the admins will add them.

If i remember i'll do it when i have time