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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by spqr0a1 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:26PM (#12553889)
To get extra pedantic we are apes. Taxonomically, humans are in the great ape family Hominidae.

We were, however, never monkeys.

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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by vacri on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:59AM (#12555002)
Eddie Izzard points out that the French don't distinguish between monkeys and apes... and then goes on to suggest that the French translation for a line in Planet of the Apes must be interesting: "We are not monkeys! We are apes!"
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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by linkregister on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:31PM (#12558532)
Ah. Thanks for the correction!
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