What separates man from ape?
If the whole theory about humans evolving from apes is true than what is the difference between an ape and a human? If we were to raise and breed apes in human society would they eventually become like us? If humans lived in the wild would they become like apes? If after many generations in the wild they looked and acted like apes would they be considered human or animal? Should killing an ape be as bad as killing a human? Would killing an ape be sin?
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Only a few percent of our genes is the difference. Or rather I should say we ARE apes, and the other apes that still exist are share most of our genes with us.
No, if we lived in the wild we would not become apes like you are thinking. Some humans have and do live in the wild (in fact we all did several thousand years ago, and for most of our species history), and the insinuation of them being apes is a classic racist line (not implying that you were going for that). What it would make us, in my opinion, is sane. We as a species simply resulted from yet another mutation and filled a different ecological niche than other apes.
I won’t get into the ethical questions.
On average, I’m guessing, five hundred pounds.
The shit we fling at each other is verbal rather than physical.
We didn’t evolve from apes. Humans and apes share a common ancestor and here.
The zoo enclosure…. unless your name is Diane Fossey…...
No, apes would not become like humans and vice versa if we returned to the wild.
We have language, reading and thinking ability that separates us from apes.
Hold on.
Biologically speaking, humans are apes.
We are the apes that evolved complex language and huge brains and bipedalism.
If you put generations and generations of chimps in human society and put selective pressure on them to evolve the same traits that humans did, then eventually, you might get something that looked like a human. Barring genetic engineering, this would probably take hundreds of years.
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Actually the shit humans fling at each other is metallic, sometimes explosive and even thermonuclear in nature.
@ragingloli I knew someone was going to say that, but I went with my answer anyway because we don’t call that “shit” and technically we shoot it at each other. Maybe I should have said “the only things apes shoot at each other is urine and semen,” but I didn’t think of it at the time and it’s not as catchy anyway.
Numbers of chromosomes, i.e. 46 instead of 48.
Tarzan lived with gorillas. Check out the novel which contains plenty of speculation. More recent research though, indicates that a human baby would die if raised by great apes.
Humans are apes. We may have significantly different lifestyles from our jungle cousins, but genetically, we’re very closely related.
Also, the theory of human evolution doesn’t say that humans evolved from apes. There have been a number of different species along our evolutionary path that looked, to varying degrees, like modern humans. About 100,000 years ago, there were at least three different species of what would be called “humans” co-existing.
And no, neither of the scenarios you posit could come about within a short period of time. Evolution is a process that takes hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of years. And it’s extremely difficult to predict what kinds of evolutionary adapatations the various species alive on earth today might have to make. Evolution is influenced by both environmental factors as well as survival and it’s difficult to know what kinds of challenges of environment or survival we (and other animals) may face in the future.
To answer your last two questions – I think that killing any animal is morally dubious at best.
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