“humans and apes had a common ancestor a few million years ago.”
More like “any common ancestor of all apes is also an ancestor of all humans”.
(Humans are not apes if you define apes paraphiletically e.g. as ‘the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of bonobos and gibbons, excluding humans’, but then “humans are not apes” becomes a tautology.)
More like “any common ancestor of all apes is also an ancestor of all humans”.
(Humans are not apes if you define apes paraphiletically e.g. as ‘the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of bonobos and gibbons, excluding humans’, but then “humans are not apes” becomes a tautology.)