Where have all the half Monkeys gone?….

August 29, 2005

Mari-Jo made me muse upon the thought of if we all evolved from monkeys you must have had various monkeys all co-existing with each other while at various stages of the evolutionary scale – monkeys, half monkeys and good ol’ Neanderthal man, so where pray tell have all the half monkeys gone? – so instead of sitting there just wondering about it I decided to go and loo k it up and here is a brief selection of what I discovered:

98.4% of our genes are the same as the chimpanzee
Chimpanzees can use sign language for terms as abstract as “like” and “different”.
Imagine a human chain where a girl stands with her left hand holding the right hand of her mother, who in turn is holding the right hand of her mother with her left and so on and so on. In order for the chain to reach the chimpanzee it would only need to go on for an astoundingly short 300 miles. (which is short when you think of millions of years etc)
It has been recently revealed that female monkeys have affairs with males from other monkey tribes and keep it a secret from members of her own group.

So azz you can c, zee chimpanzee iz perhaps ze half monkey missing link I woz musing about. Bet they have been nipping off and rolling joints for years while the documentary makers haven’t been looking – swinging in trees, lying in the sun, having lots of sex and eating bananas. Splendid. Makes you wonder who evolved from who when you read that.