A chimpanzee's finger and a human finger. Identical in practically every aspect. We don't come from primates, we are primates.
We are not a race, we are a species. We are animals. We are mammals. We are a product of nature. We belong to it and we are a part of it.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Religion tells self serving LIES ....THE MURDER of other species via destruction of habitat or direct shooting stabbing poisoning drowning or starving them in cages is more evidence the bible lies must be repudiated in public schools rather than worshipped or misquoting tiny excerpts
Larry68Feminist
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July 29, 2020
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Interesting. I wonder how fingernail growth is controlled in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.
JackPedigo
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July 27, 2020
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Biological -Genetic classification in Humans is a myth: Here you go Bobby9!
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t1nick
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July 27, 2020
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I agree with you. Popular myth often classifies persons by their physical attributes (phenotype). But genetically its a myth, and it remains important that we overcome these racial stereotypes if we want to bring the country together. Its deeply entrenched in society and will be difficult to overcome, but have to start somewhere.
Another reason that race does not exist genetically is the mobility that typifies the human species. Part of the biological/genetic definition requires geographical isolation. Because humans are not limited by a lack of mobility, every group genotypical group have interred worldwide. So every human gene pool has been intermixed with one another. So everybody some small piece of every other human group in their genome.
Not arguing the point, go back a few million years and somewhere we all came from the same mom. A chimp is 5-7 times as strong as an adult male human though, don't get into a fight with one. If chased, try to get into a body of water, they can't swim. 
Druvius
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July 26, 2020
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Our DNA is greater than 98.5% percent identical to a chimpanzees. Both chimpanzees and Homo branched off the same phylogenetic lineage, the same lineage that gorillas branched. The most recent common ancestor to all three was not an ape, but approaching primate-like. We did not evolve from apes, we evolved parallel to and contemporaneous with chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangs. To be clear, we are not descended from apes. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, our common ancestor was a small arboreal, insect-eating mammal (almost rodent like). After the dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, mammals and birds became the dominant taxa. Our ancestors increased their size, came down out of the trees and expanded their diets.
t1nick
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July 26, 2020
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Yep. I have a "family portrait" on the wall, showing various stages of the evolution of our species. It hangs with all the other pictures of more recent family members. I think that it is good to remember where we came from.
AmyTheBruce
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July 26, 2020
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We came from a single mother in Africa 386 thousand years ago by tracing her RNA in all our genes
Humans acting superior and keeping animals in zoos or murdering them for trophies while we are destroying the planet is the ultimate proof that we are not any better than them, we are worse than them.
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