• Nakedmole@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t image that to be correct honestly. Apes have much further developed brains than monkeys, so I would assume it logical that apes evolved from monkeys and not the other way around.

    This graphic seems to support my assumption if I am not mistaken:

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That chart just shows that apes and monkeys evolved from a shared ancestor, not that that shared ancestor is a monkey. Granted, it doesn’t support my position either. Nevertheless.

      May I have a source for that image please? Maybe it can provide more information.


      Edit: I did some more research:

      The cladogram shown here shows that simians (infraorder Simiiformes) branched off into Catarrhini and New World Monkeys (parvorder platyrrhini). Then, the Catarrhini branched off into apes (superfamily Hominoidia) and Old World Monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea.

      In short, all monkeys have a shared ancestry with apes, but are not evolved from apes.