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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes are a taxonomic family of primates that includes […] orangutan[s]; Gorilla[s …]; […] the chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, of which only modern humans (Homo sapiens) remain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

Apes [are] collectively [called] Hominoidea […] There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons […]; and the [great apes …]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

You’re right in that humans are apes taxonomically. What I was trying to contradict was the misconception according to which the type of apes we see today got somehow “frozen” evolutionary some time ago, but that some of their descendents evolved to become human.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

These pedantic Lemmy nerd fights remind me of how I learned so much on early reddit reading similar arguments.