Quote Originally Posted by iopq
Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy
its not evolved from apes, but share a common ancestor with apes. iirc we do not know who the most recent common ancestor was. also iirc we're closer to apes than to neanderthals. interestingly, neanderthals were probably equally as intelligent as humans
Not true, we split with neanderthals maybe around what, 250,000 years ago from the same common ancestor and we split with apes 7 million years ago.
You can discuss the dates, but we are closer to neaderthals than apes

and we know our most recent common ancestor is Sahelanthropus tchadensis which we think was a common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Are you suggesting we split, as in derived, from Neanderthals?

Are you suggesting we co-existed with Neanderthals?

Please clarify.