On 29-12-2011 12:42, Warp wrote:
> andrel<byt### [at] gmailcom>  wrote:
>> I answered that in a previous post. the last common ancestor of humans
>> and monkeys was by definition a monkey.
>
>    What do you mean "by definition"?
>
monkeys are the clade of simians except humans*, the last common 
ancestor was not a human, hence a monkey.

*) in the dutch interpretation where apes are monkeys**. internationally 
monkeys are the clade of simians except apes. if you follow that 
definition, the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys was the last 
common ancestor of monkeys and apes. again that was a monkey because it 
was not an ape.
**) it is one of those occasions where language influences scientific 
classification.


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