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Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They already have, we evolved from a species you could colloquially refer to as monkeys. The ancestors of those monkeys went on to write Shakespeare
Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We evolved from the same species as monkies did, not from monkeys. They weren’t actually monkeys until they were already very far removed from us. However, given that we are apes and thus there was at some point a human ancestor species that was ape and was not human the rest of that is right. Off the top of my head that species would probably be our last common ancestor with other apes.
Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
See definition for colloquial
Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know what colloquial means, but apes cannot be colloquially referred to as monkeys. They are to far removed. You are confusing something being colloquial with something being a common misconception, that many people do not understand taxonomy at a middle school level does not make it a correct statement. Also, colloquial generally refers to how “proper” the language is being spoken (including the usage of slang and stuff like that), and not the factual correctness of it.
Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Keep coping