Lumifer comments on Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 19 May 2016 08:43:04AM 0 points [-]

Depends on what you mean by "monkey". IIRC the "standard" definition is paraphiletic as it excludes apes.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 May 2016 02:21:45PM 0 points [-]

In the context of "did man evolve from monkeys" the definition clearly includes apes. In casual language, too, a chimpanzee is a monkey.

That all is rather peripheral to the main point, though.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 20 May 2016 09:33:52AM 0 points [-]

On rereading the thread it was CarlJ who replaced the "monkeys gave birth to humans" in CCC's comment with "man evolved from monkeys", FWIW.