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This question i can answer for you directly.
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As a scientist, i would tell you that humans did not evolve from monkeys.
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That's just not the case.
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What we do know is that monkeys and humans have a common ancestor.
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Now, if you go far enough back in the evolutionary tree, you'll find that as far as we know, all life, has a common ancestor.
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But if you look at primates specifically, there's a proto -primate or er -primate, an ancient primate that is the ancestor of all modern primates.
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So we know modern primates would include proscymians, monkeys, apes, and we have the so -called lesser apes or gibbons, the great apes, which includes humans, gorillas, chimps.
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And we know we're more closely related to chimps than gorillas...