Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
We are apes - we should be climbing.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'
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