army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2012 07:06:08PM *  1 point [-]

"humans and apes had a common ancestor a few million years ago."

More like “any common ancestor of all apes is also an ancestor of all humans”.

(Humans are not apes if you define apes paraphiletically e.g. as ‘the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of bonobos and gibbons, excluding humans’, but then “humans are not apes” becomes a tautology.)