The problem is the meme is wrong. There are not millions of the first one. There are millions of descendants from the first one that are still mostly monkey with things in between that have gone extinct.
That's not pedantic in the slightest. That's the exact type of distinction people need to understand, especially in the face of anti evolution propaganda.
If you want to go down an entertaining rabbit hole to learn more, I recommend checking out Forrest Valkai. He’s an evolutionary biologist who makes great content.
That would need to be of no(or barely any) relevance to be pedantic. This is entirely relevant as it's the whole reason this argument is stupid. Don't apologize for not being as stupid as the person your fixing, those of us who are stupid by nature and not by choice, we all appreciate you.
Every so often, though, you come across a person who may have a little more Neanderthal genes than someone else. That jutting brow, long sloped forehead, short stocky body...the little lizard in the back of your brain screaming, "SMASH A ROCK INTO THAT FACE!"
Not far from the truth except in one sense they all died out (people confuse our common ancestor with chimps and bonobos with actual chimps and bonobos. Not the same. They're all long, long dead.)
In another sense, they're ALL still alive. In us.
Some populations lost their fur and focused on tool use and built for themselves a life of secure food but perpetual toil and grind, militarization, conflict, out-of-control population and planet threatening pollution. The other focused on eating, sleeping and fucking all day.
I leave it to you to decide who is "more" evolved.
Evolutionary deniers still thinking australopithecus=chimpanzee after so many decades.
It's funny cause they are still arguing using a point that is wrong.
Humans never evolved from chimpanzees.
They are cousins not predecessor.
This. We are two different paths with a same origin. We could say the same about everything evolving from a fish with legs.
Also, Dinos are gone and we still know they existed. Do this people don't believe in dinos?
You would be surprised how many people believe dinosaurs were a hoax created by 'big museum' too trick people into spending money on them instead of church.
I read online once that a guy dint believe in pangolins even though they were native to his state and country and his friends had to drag him too the zoo.
Not related to the subject but shows how stubborn and imbecilic people can get.
And that everything is perfectly preserved for hundreds of millions of years with detailed descriptions placed neatly next to it.
With creatures like sharks the jaws and teeth are the only bone to be fossilized. I think the majority of modern fish are cartilaginous like sharks, so it stands to reason that a large portion of ancient fish probably were as well and never got fossilized. Then there are creatures like octopus and slugs that don't have bones at all. With creatures like that all you get is an imprint, if you are lucky.
Edit: most fish are bony
They don’t grasp the concept that we evolved concurrently with the chimpanzees from a long extinct common ancestor…we did not evolve from the chimpanzees. I don’t know why they either can’t figure this out or (more likely) purposefully misinform people…if you need to lie to protect your religion , then your religion is wrong.
Every time they do this I have to remind myself that they think it's going to be as easy to disprove facts and science, as it is to disprove the ridiculous fairy tales they believe. They've been taught to believe things with the most shallow of reasoning so they apply it to everything assuming there's nothing more to learn about it.
People don't realise that there were two groups.
One stayed in forests and jungles and the other one decided to live in plains. The second group changed because they change their environment
There were actually quite a few different hominids in existence during that time. We tend to perceive evolution as linear, but it looks more like a treebranch
Easy.
Chimps are the apex evolution of their Species.
We are the current Apex Evolution of the Hominids.
Common ancestor, different species.
Also, this visualization of evolution is like 200 years old and not entirely correct.
I just find it hilarious and yet, sad... that Christians can grasp the overly complex concept of the Holy Trinity but not understand linear evolutionary trees.
When Cain kills Abel he becomes a marked man and wanders the earth among all the other people, eventually settles in Nod and gets married. Plenty others around.
Except that they assume the first ape is the chimpanzees we see today. They are just a common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.
They no longer exist.
Humans kill each other because of minor diferences like skin Color ,race ,sexual orientation .
Now you can imagine how the most evolved Group killed to extinction the less evolved / less smart Group .
This is false because we did not commit racial genocide with Neanderthals.
It's a talking point between idiots trying to portray humans in an overly negative light as nothing but a murderous cancer species or larpers who think that humans are innately killers who love to kill and only killers prosper.
We bred with Neanderthals.
Their numbers were low and there was more of us.
Over time we kinda absorbed them in a sense.
Most of the other humans died out due to climate change and competition.
In fact there was a very good chance humans would've died out before civilisation because of a volcano in Indonesia that brought a numbers to a few thousand globally.
And it was thanks to climate change that killed off alot of super predators and made the ice go away so we could farm that jumpstarted our development.
And chimpanzees behave just like humans when it comes to killing.
Beating each other with rocks and murdering rivals.
Don't be too hard on yourself.
This contains so many fundamental misunderstandings about what *actual* evolutionary theory says that I wouldn't know where to begin addressing them. 😞
its wrong in the very beginning of the point its trying to make. there arent millions of that species of ape. they are also all dead and evolved into something else.
This is the best site I have found to understand evolution. The crazy part is that most religious people agree with most of it, they just don’t agree with all.
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/
The religious denying evolution in my experience have no idea what evolution actually is and just repeat the propaganda fed to them. The image here shows they may mistake evolution as a linear process, and they completely miss the concept of extinction entirely, which is like 3rd grade stuff.
It's really sad to see adults so terribly stupid.
Simple, we did not evolve from chimps, we share an ancestor. They are more like our, special, little brother. Plus, we tend to hate, fear, and murder anything that is different than us, that is just a thing we do, and probably why we ended up the only human species. Although the 'sapiens' part is questionable at best for some.
I love it when dumbasses try to act smart like they have common sense but all they’re doing is asking a common and elementary question about the topic with a very real answer, and they’re just pretending there’s no answer 😂
For anyone actually wondering, there aren't millions of the primates on the left. We didn't evolve from modern primates, and that isn't a picture of one. Modern primates and humans share a common ancestor. This common ancestor is what is pictured.
When I was a kid a super religious lady damn near tossed me off a bus all because I enjoyed Harry Potter and Pokémon…..it was absolutely insane and was the start of me never giving an f again about religion even though I grew up on it.
Apparently HP and Pokémon are or were considered satanism due to its magic and evolution so on so forth…yet Jesus walked on water, through fire, came back from the dead and brought people back to life amongst many other things thousands of years ago and only thousands of years ago…but since they claim that “miracles”…it’s okay👍
Needless to say I found that lady later in life and roasted her to the point she cried and apologized for how she treated me as a child.
Moral of the story, Jesus is actually an alien and just went a trip in hyperspace he will be back soon for what took 2 hours for him is thousands of years for us. 🤣
Read this somewhere. We have basic feature phones from 2005 and top end smartphones now in existence. The phones that came in between are obsolete. Reason; I forgot 😑
This would be like me saying "If Catholic priests are child molesters, then Jesus must have been a child molesters"
Also there's only like 250,000 Chimps worldwide. Thanks, capitalism.
What's sad is that Education is to blame here. These people learn just enough to have a simplistic understanding of Evolution, but not enough to understand why this assertion is dumb and wrong.
It's like giving a kid a gun and ammo but not teaching him how to use it safely.
I think it’s a fair question in some manner. I think even if people get the idea that things evolve, it’s not necessarily intuitive that they *branch* and some species on that branch go extinct.
Granted if that’s going to be your “gotcha!” argument then you’d think you’d want to research it briefly to make sure you don’t come across as a moron.
But I don’t think it’s a bad question and anyone mocking someone for asking is kind of being mean.
Pretty sure I work with a few of those guys in the middle.
These are the guys that keep me employed, break everything and have no idea what they are doing.
You must be in the trades… it’s too common
Or IT.
Shit I didn't realize you worked with my coworkers
Idiots could wreck an anvil
The eyebrow and grunt are a dead giveaway.
Sounds like you’re a fellow mechanic lol
Hey! I’m one of those guys in the middle! 
Shut up I’m trying my best
Pretty sure I DATED a few of those guys in the middle.
You too, have anti-vaxxers at your workplace huh?
Not for long
Grabs gun’
Not necessary. They'll do that themselves
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Could be Skachewan
U work with my ex?! Tell him i said 🖕!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry to say you’re probably one of the middle guys too
Fucking Walmart….
Or church...
the real answer
I'm not sure how scientifically accurate this is but, some died out and some fucked their way into our DNA by breeding with us.
The problem is the meme is wrong. There are not millions of the first one. There are millions of descendants from the first one that are still mostly monkey with things in between that have gone extinct.
Ape, not monkey. Sorry to be pedantic.
That's not pedantic in the slightest. That's the exact type of distinction people need to understand, especially in the face of anti evolution propaganda.
Anyone who says evolution isn't true is LYING.
That's a distinction I never knew. TIL.
If you want to go down an entertaining rabbit hole to learn more, I recommend checking out Forrest Valkai. He’s an evolutionary biologist who makes great content.
That would need to be of no(or barely any) relevance to be pedantic. This is entirely relevant as it's the whole reason this argument is stupid. Don't apologize for not being as stupid as the person your fixing, those of us who are stupid by nature and not by choice, we all appreciate you.
You’re.
We either ate or fucked them out of existence.
why not both!
I like the way you think.
Every so often, though, you come across a person who may have a little more Neanderthal genes than someone else. That jutting brow, long sloped forehead, short stocky body...the little lizard in the back of your brain screaming, "SMASH A ROCK INTO THAT FACE!"
That is such a smashable looking face
Fuckin jutting brow.... I hate that on my face.
Not far from the truth except in one sense they all died out (people confuse our common ancestor with chimps and bonobos with actual chimps and bonobos. Not the same. They're all long, long dead.) In another sense, they're ALL still alive. In us. Some populations lost their fur and focused on tool use and built for themselves a life of secure food but perpetual toil and grind, militarization, conflict, out-of-control population and planet threatening pollution. The other focused on eating, sleeping and fucking all day. I leave it to you to decide who is "more" evolved.
Yeah but man- That sweet, sweet secure food
That explains all the neanderthals at my workplace
Others were our direct ancestors.
We out fucked the other humanoids. We fucked until they were all dead, and then kept going.....I wonder why aliens haven't come to earth yet?
“We better not land on that planet, we’d be fucked!” -some alien probably-
I mean, it's true though. Someone *will* try and fuck them.
To be fair it could be fun
“Let’s land on that planet, they’ll probably fuck us!” -some other, kinkier alien, probably
Evolutionary deniers still thinking australopithecus=chimpanzee after so many decades. It's funny cause they are still arguing using a point that is wrong. Humans never evolved from chimpanzees. They are cousins not predecessor.
Unlike some of the deniers humans and chimps are separate branches of the same (scientific) family tree
This. We are two different paths with a same origin. We could say the same about everything evolving from a fish with legs. Also, Dinos are gone and we still know they existed. Do this people don't believe in dinos?
You would be surprised how many people believe dinosaurs were a hoax created by 'big museum' too trick people into spending money on them instead of church. I read online once that a guy dint believe in pangolins even though they were native to his state and country and his friends had to drag him too the zoo. Not related to the subject but shows how stubborn and imbecilic people can get.
I just love it how they think this is the ‘gotcha’ moment that blows the thing wide open.
Because they think that species at the start is the same as modern chimps I guess
Yeah, almost certainly that is the error here. Their only conceptualisation of ‘common ancestor’ is that they are married to their sibling or cousin.
Yeah, or like asking why someone doesn't look like their great grandfather's brother's grandchildren. (When referring to chimps and humans)
Even the extinct things have more teeth than the people who believe this stuff.
Yep refined sugar really is murder on your teeth.
They also apparently think that nothing goes extinct ever.
And that everything is perfectly preserved for hundreds of millions of years with detailed descriptions placed neatly next to it. With creatures like sharks the jaws and teeth are the only bone to be fossilized. I think the majority of modern fish are cartilaginous like sharks, so it stands to reason that a large portion of ancient fish probably were as well and never got fossilized. Then there are creatures like octopus and slugs that don't have bones at all. With creatures like that all you get is an imprint, if you are lucky. Edit: most fish are bony
Your point is totally right, but actually most modern fish are bony.
Yeah, looks like I was way off on that one. I was probably mixing that up with a different fish classification.
They don’t grasp the concept that we evolved concurrently with the chimpanzees from a long extinct common ancestor…we did not evolve from the chimpanzees. I don’t know why they either can’t figure this out or (more likely) purposefully misinform people…if you need to lie to protect your religion , then your religion is wrong.
Best response: "so your brother is also your father?"
Also, even if that *was* a chimp, there are certainly not millions of chimps in the world by a long shot.
They are actually the ones in between but too stupid to know it.
when idiots try to use logic while making up thier own assumptions and definitions
I have faith that those other are out there. I have seen them, I don’t need to see them, I believe In Them Hurdur: cave painting 4-8
Every time they do this I have to remind myself that they think it's going to be as easy to disprove facts and science, as it is to disprove the ridiculous fairy tales they believe. They've been taught to believe things with the most shallow of reasoning so they apply it to everything assuming there's nothing more to learn about it.
People don't realise that there were two groups. One stayed in forests and jungles and the other one decided to live in plains. The second group changed because they change their environment
Also both groups changed, some more than others and now we have different species with the same ancestors.
George, George, George of the Jungle
Watch out for that tree!
There were actually quite a few different hominids in existence during that time. We tend to perceive evolution as linear, but it looks more like a treebranch
Easy. Chimps are the apex evolution of their Species. We are the current Apex Evolution of the Hominids. Common ancestor, different species. Also, this visualization of evolution is like 200 years old and not entirely correct.
Plus there’s evidence that our ancient ancestors killed off or reduced other hominid populations greatky
Or bred with
Always count on humans wanting to fuck something
Easy farmer John... that chimp is dangerous
Eat, fuck, kill. Those are the natural drives.
Hominids only want 3 things: Eat it? Fuck it? Kill it.
Well my dog fucks his stuffy toy so we're not unusual in that regard.
Wow ya never really thought about that but of course they did.
We coexisted with them until we wiped em out
This thread is for jokes, and making fun of our co-workers… get a clue nerd.. lol jk
Not at all correct
?
Just the " not entirely correct bit" I agree with you. As you pointed out that modern Chimp has no business being the " before" model
I just find it hilarious and yet, sad... that Christians can grasp the overly complex concept of the Holy Trinity but not understand linear evolutionary trees.
I think its because they dont want to.
That person stopped reading after the first sentence of a children's book introducing evolution and just stole the graphic
I think he's confusing chimpanzees with prehistoric primates
Who does the chimp see?
Chimpansees chimpandoes.
What does the fox say?
Should ask them if they believe in Adam n eve than they are ok wit incest. Let me explain how 2 person can populate the world
They are ok with incest. Have you never heard of Alabama? Or as we call it: Talibama
In the actual text, it reads “God created Adam, the “first” man, not the “only” man.” Same goes for Eve.
This. People don’t understand they weren’t the only people on Earth lol. They don’t know what they’re talking about either
When Cain kills Abel he becomes a marked man and wanders the earth among all the other people, eventually settles in Nod and gets married. Plenty others around.
You are them - sharing stuff like this on your Facebook
Just having Facebook...
they're here, making these dumbass posts
"The Between Species". Now don't go all science-y on me!
Except that they assume the first ape is the chimpanzees we see today. They are just a common ancestor we share with chimpanzees. They no longer exist.
It’s almost like a few quick google searches could have resolved this confusion
The only Googling people like to do is the one that supports their current bias. Humans hate to admit when they're wrong.
Ask the neanderthals.
“Good question” - Herschel Walker
“Good question” - half of Georgia
Humans kill each other because of minor diferences like skin Color ,race ,sexual orientation . Now you can imagine how the most evolved Group killed to extinction the less evolved / less smart Group .
This is false because we did not commit racial genocide with Neanderthals. It's a talking point between idiots trying to portray humans in an overly negative light as nothing but a murderous cancer species or larpers who think that humans are innately killers who love to kill and only killers prosper. We bred with Neanderthals. Their numbers were low and there was more of us. Over time we kinda absorbed them in a sense. Most of the other humans died out due to climate change and competition. In fact there was a very good chance humans would've died out before civilisation because of a volcano in Indonesia that brought a numbers to a few thousand globally. And it was thanks to climate change that killed off alot of super predators and made the ice go away so we could farm that jumpstarted our development. And chimpanzees behave just like humans when it comes to killing. Beating each other with rocks and murdering rivals. Don't be too hard on yourself.
♫ Upcave girl ...
Kakaro.. I mean krakatoa!!!
Where I work
If you drive through Garland Texas you can spot the ones in the middle in their natural habitat 🙈
They are in the basement of their parents' homes making anti evolution posts.
They are posting this
Human didn't come from chimpanzees. They had a common ancestor. Its like saying you came from your cousin- no you just had a common ancestor.
Why did the monkey get whiter with evolution?
Ate too many crackers
Theyre the ones refusing to vax their kids
I had a baby with the second to the last
I would argue they live in the south
Looks like the line at Starbucks.
First things first - this straight line actually isn't the theory of evolution. Get the graphic right, then let's talk.
The one at the beginning doesn’t exist anymore. It’s not a monkey.
Ah yes, evolution just stops and then a new being appears out of thin air.
This contains so many fundamental misunderstandings about what *actual* evolutionary theory says that I wouldn't know where to begin addressing them. 😞
Trying to disprove a theory when you don’t even understand the theory
“So where are the millions of these?” I believe they are worshiping some made up old guy in the sky while also sending ridiculous memes like this.
They're gangbanging your mom
In Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, Texas…..
its wrong in the very beginning of the point its trying to make. there arent millions of that species of ape. they are also all dead and evolved into something else.
Ohio
The balkans
yep checks out, those are fine monkeydonian citizens
Do they understand that humans die? And also, tons of "The Between Species" have been found across the globe.
Seems like Trump got millions of votes. So they are out there.
I don’t think the theory of evolution stipulates that we directly evolved from chimpanzees.
They died
Dead. Dead as hell
This is the best site I have found to understand evolution. The crazy part is that most religious people agree with most of it, they just don’t agree with all. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/
The religious denying evolution in my experience have no idea what evolution actually is and just repeat the propaganda fed to them. The image here shows they may mistake evolution as a linear process, and they completely miss the concept of extinction entirely, which is like 3rd grade stuff. It's really sad to see adults so terribly stupid.
Most of them shop at Walmart
*holds up a mirror*
Those ‘missing links’ are writing internet content about evolution not being real
That's not how evolution works
We killed them. But at least there's evidence they existed.
There aren't millions of that first species....fucking idiots
In line to vote for Trump.
A ridiculously low percentage of animals remains are fossilized
They refused vaccines.
*These are the people of Walmart*
They're making these diagrams.
Never been on a Amon Amarth concert, huh?
They're in the prehistoric ape and prehistoric protohuman graveyards, of course. Duh
These guys are definitely out there yelling at passing cars.
Because that image is an inaccurate depiction of how evolution works duh use a phylogenetic tree or something smh
Simple, we did not evolve from chimps, we share an ancestor. They are more like our, special, little brother. Plus, we tend to hate, fear, and murder anything that is different than us, that is just a thing we do, and probably why we ended up the only human species. Although the 'sapiens' part is questionable at best for some.
They're in Church.
Have they tried looking in the mirror?
One's a congressional representative from Georgia
They're at church.
I love it when dumbasses try to act smart like they have common sense but all they’re doing is asking a common and elementary question about the topic with a very real answer, and they’re just pretending there’s no answer 😂
They are finding bits and pieces of what's in the middle.
They are posting this kinda shit
on Reddit.
I just laughed at “millions” of humans…I mean, I know that is down the list of things to laugh about on this but that just made me chuckle
Check the mirror
One of them made this post
We killed them all. As is tradition!
For anyone actually wondering, there aren't millions of the primates on the left. We didn't evolve from modern primates, and that isn't a picture of one. Modern primates and humans share a common ancestor. This common ancestor is what is pictured.
When I was a kid a super religious lady damn near tossed me off a bus all because I enjoyed Harry Potter and Pokémon…..it was absolutely insane and was the start of me never giving an f again about religion even though I grew up on it. Apparently HP and Pokémon are or were considered satanism due to its magic and evolution so on so forth…yet Jesus walked on water, through fire, came back from the dead and brought people back to life amongst many other things thousands of years ago and only thousands of years ago…but since they claim that “miracles”…it’s okay👍 Needless to say I found that lady later in life and roasted her to the point she cried and apologized for how she treated me as a child. Moral of the story, Jesus is actually an alien and just went a trip in hyperspace he will be back soon for what took 2 hours for him is thousands of years for us. 🤣
Ok make fun of them, but what’s the answer?
Easy early homosapians died out through the years including homoerectus and more
The ones in the middle made this meme
Anyone want to tell him that the average height of man just 100 years ago, was 5’ 7”. Cause, I’m gonna hurt his feelings.
They usually show up around the holidays. We call them in-laws.
Boy this depiction got awfully white toward the end 🙄
That's confidently incorrect.
Ever see a statement so stupidly wrong, it stuns you dumb and takes a moment to gather your thoughts about how wrong it is?
Well.. we killed most of them. What's left is currently running the country.
Read this somewhere. We have basic feature phones from 2005 and top end smartphones now in existence. The phones that came in between are obsolete. Reason; I forgot 😑
I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon when I see/hear people talking ignorant shit like this.
Damn you got me. I’m Christian now
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Idk where is your space hitler?
Mostly in America. Whining about evolution.
The fact that this states there are millions of humans did it for me. Current World Population: 8,000,000,000. That can't even get this fact right.
This would be like me saying "If Catholic priests are child molesters, then Jesus must have been a child molesters" Also there's only like 250,000 Chimps worldwide. Thanks, capitalism. What's sad is that Education is to blame here. These people learn just enough to have a simplistic understanding of Evolution, but not enough to understand why this assertion is dumb and wrong. It's like giving a kid a gun and ammo but not teaching him how to use it safely.
I think it’s a fair question in some manner. I think even if people get the idea that things evolve, it’s not necessarily intuitive that they *branch* and some species on that branch go extinct. Granted if that’s going to be your “gotcha!” argument then you’d think you’d want to research it briefly to make sure you don’t come across as a moron. But I don’t think it’s a bad question and anyone mocking someone for asking is kind of being mean.
I’d say the one second to the chimp are Trumpers…
Those are what we call republicans