I heard that they are trying to pass a law in spain that gives the great apes additional rights to other animals. I approve! (Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-562236/Orangutan-attempts-hunt-fish-spear.html)
Evolution at work
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August 11, 2008 at 10:15 am
Gonna gets me a feeshy!
August 11, 2008 at 10:33 am
That’s awesome and should have been that way a long time ago..
August 11, 2008 at 11:03 am
I’ve always wondered at the possibility that the primates will continue to evolve throughout sentience. Given a couple thousand years, maybe they’ll develop their own race, and culture. Language, and society. Though the real question is, will humans even allow that? Or will we interfere with their progression and impose our own culture and values on the new ape race! Whoa…
August 11, 2008 at 11:06 am
fishing with spear/using tools/solving problems does not equal evolution
if this were true, children would evolve everyday at school
August 11, 2008 at 11:18 am
^^^
Um nate…no.
Usage of tools does show signs of elevating beyond the limitations of the previous generation.
A Monkey with a spear spells doom for us all. In the way of endless racist jokes.
August 11, 2008 at 11:20 am
Natedog, perhaps this is a new development in primate, they are becoming more dexterous and intelligent.
And yea, technically children are evolving in school if you call evolution a gradual change and improvement. But yea, your right, evolution takes place on a species as a whole, not an individual
August 11, 2008 at 11:33 am
Orangutangs are actually the apes that are least similar to humans.
August 11, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Cars go fast.
August 11, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The use of simple tools was one of the biggest steps in our own evolution. Haven’t you even seen
2001 space odyssey? GEEZ!
August 11, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Evolution =/= Adaptation
August 11, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I think it would depend on how the ‘tang learned to use a spear (if that’s even what is happening in the pic). If it learned it on it’s own that’s one thing, but if it’s just immitating something it saw a human do that’s another. Hell, it could have even been trained and is just carrying out a response to a command in order to get a treat from it’s trainer.
August 11, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Maybe he just got done watching Cast Away.
August 11, 2008 at 3:26 pm
evolution would also be if another tang’ seen this and got the idea to try.
August 11, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I’m not sure if evolution can really be observed in a humans lifetime. Though the ‘tangs seem to be hovering on the cusp of some major plateaus.
Just wait til they start building simple machines like pulleys and fulcrums. Crazy monkeys.
August 11, 2008 at 5:18 pm
If you want to argue evolution with me, by all means, but that’s just a title I slapped on. I do know a few things about the theory of evolution is, but allow me some creative freedom plx.
August 11, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Evolution is fake. Darwin was an idiot.
August 11, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Lol Exacerbate: no way that isn’t troll bait.
August 11, 2008 at 7:08 pm
You never know, Dooves. I know a girl that, to this day, tells everyone who mentions evolution that Darwin converted to Christianity on his deathbed and recanted his theories. Gotta love urban legends.
August 11, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Ha ha, Brutal. However, from Darwin’s perspective,
why not? He thought he was worm food, so It couldn’t hurt.
August 11, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Good thing it wouldn’t matter if Darwin had been a Scientologist before, during and after writing The Origin of Species.
August 11, 2008 at 8:42 pm
That reminds me of Pascal’s Wager, MrDooves.
If he’s going to convert to Christianity just to be on the safe side, why not convert to all religions while he’s at? All religions claim to be true, might as well convert to all of them. My earlier post was just me trolling. I believe in evolution.
August 11, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Evolution is just a cosmic goldberg machine some aliens set in motion, they are watching from their 4d living room going, “oh shit! no way! yah chek this shit out dudue it worked!
August 11, 2008 at 8:51 pm
heh.. dudue
August 12, 2008 at 5:29 am
Aaaah, my clever little minions…soon the earth shall bow to my spear-wielding tang-troopers!