• Question: What were we before apes?

    Asked by hannahhhhh to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 22 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 22 Jun 2013:

      Do a google image search for lemurs and tarsiers. These creatures are probably the most similar to what we would have looked like.

      If you want to look back even further, google colugos and tree shrews.

    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      We were smaller apes like lemurs, and before that we were rodents. 🙂

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      As Ben and David have said, smaller monkeys and lemurs etc.

      The important thing to remember about evolution is that its not just a straight progression. As you move away from the common ancestor we get branches of new species and those branches get even more branches. So although our common ancestor is a monkey etc we were never actually a monkey. When we evolved we stopped being a monkey and became a new species which eventually evolved into homo spaiens.

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