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kofh2u Member (Idle past 4070 days) Posts: 1162 From: phila., PA Joined:
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If we descended from apes, how come apes are still here? What’s wrong with this picture? Well nothing or pretty much everything — depending on what you think it shows. If you see it as man evolving over millions of years from ape-like ancestors, you’re right. But if you see it as a picture of how modern monkeys change into people, that’s probably why you may ask the question: If we descended from apes, how come apes are still here?
According to the paleontologists who wrote the most recent list of "begats" from the first Man to us survivors, Modern man, a great flood out of Africa saved only us, as the other 22 species disappeared in a mass Extinction of ape-men:
Book:
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humansby G.J.Sawyer, (Author)
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