A new study has found a link between modern language and primitive sign-language used by chimpanzee's and bonobos. It points to the use of a specific sign that is used when a male asks for help in a fight and is also used when asking for food that has been stolen. These same gestures used in different contexts allows for the hypothesis that they are not random. The question I pose is whether evolution from apes specifically is believed by all readers, why or why not?
My own opinion as those of you that join us in IR are aware is that of course we have. Most obvious is that of our genetic makeup. We are a mere chromosome away, during meiosis of course, from matching those of the chimpanzees. The loss of this chromosome has been speculated to have been formed when a fusion occured between two of their chromosomes, forming a more human looking ape. Though gradual progression, each new step making them more and more human like we evolved over a period of thousands of years.
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I'm a believer of Evolution on the grand scale, which includes humans from some ape-like animal, if not an ape itself. All science points towards the Homo Sapien Sapien evolving from apes into the Homo Sapien Erectus so I cannot deny the facts that are right in my face. However, I am also a believer in evolution only occuring because it offers an advantage to the creature, but I don't see the advantage offered up to us by losing body hair and developing the way we have. Sure, humans can perform more complex problems because of the structure of the brain, but that could have easily been placed in the ape with some changes in the skull framework.
Advantages aren't always apparent as inherently successful to its survival. Merely being attractive is enough to ensure a genes legacy. The body hair was an adaptation to lice it is believed. When lice became a problem we lost the hair and adopted clothing.
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