• Question: how did we evolve from monkeys?

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      Asked by cook333 to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 11 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Mim, y'ight.
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        Sarwat Iqbal answered on 11 Mar 2015:

        I don’t think that humans evolved from monkeys.
        They are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn’t evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees.
        Humans evolved through the biological processes that govern the evolution of all life on Earth.

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        Shreesha Bhat answered on 18 Mar 2015:

        Ya, we didnot evolve from monkeys. They are more like our cousins!

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