It’s important to combat anthropocentric bias. Primates came first we’re actually the newest ones, so if we share behaviors, they did it first and we copied them.
All the other primates out there that have evolved into their current species over the last million years that we evolved into ours?
We’re all evolving. I don’t know which primate species would be considered the “newest” currently but that’s also probably being revised all the time as we discover more. But I’m sure either we’re not the “latest” or it’s pretty close.
We’re not the latest in some chain of primate species, being the ultimate version. Thats not how evolution works.
Exactly — ‘Like’ is a comparison and doesn’t imply belonging to a set. Someone can be ‘like a piece of shit’ without belonging to a greater class of shits
Ahh… but humans are primates?
So wouldn’t that make both true? Other primates would display human like qualities, while the inverse of ‘humans do primate things’ also holds true?
I can see what OP is getting at but it’s really an argument around semantics, and sentence structure.
For example, we don’t say “Some fruits are similar to Apples”, because it sounds daft and it’s redundant.
On the other hand saying “Pears are similar to Apples” is of course fine, and helpful to someone who’s never seen a Pear.
Like most shower thoughts, they’re pointing out something obvious, but in an emotive way. “Primates aren’t like us, we are like them!”
In terms of biology, specifically botany, we do say some fruits are similar to apples. This comparison seems like a biological one too.
It’s important to combat anthropocentric bias. Primates came first we’re actually the newest ones, so if we share behaviors, they did it first and we copied them.
Humans are in the set of primates, but not all primates are human.
Still, your showerthought says “a subset of primates are doing primate things”.
Well humans are the newest primates so anything we do similar to other primates, they did it first and it’s us who copied them.
No we’re not.
Heck, chimpanzees and bobobos only branched from each other like a million years ago.
Modern day non-humaj primates evolved from common ancestors, just like us.
What’s a newer primate than humans?
All the other primates out there that have evolved into their current species over the last million years that we evolved into ours?
We’re all evolving. I don’t know which primate species would be considered the “newest” currently but that’s also probably being revised all the time as we discover more. But I’m sure either we’re not the “latest” or it’s pretty close.
We’re not the latest in some chain of primate species, being the ultimate version. Thats not how evolution works.
Exactly — ‘Like’ is a comparison and doesn’t imply belonging to a set. Someone can be ‘like a piece of shit’ without belonging to a greater class of shits