re. the relationship to apes thing, my way of seeing the theory is this: if you think of modern apes and man as siblings separated at birth, and raised in totally different conditions you might have an idea of how neither humans nor apes are anything like they were before the evolutionary split. The apes and humans are as different to the creatures they were as the siblings would be in middle age and as infants.
One may have been raised in poverty, in a thrid world country, deprived of resources to learn, health care, and suffering from malnutrition all it's life. The other may have been raised in luxury with education and good food and medical care at it's fingertips. The former might be small [less effective physically], ignorant [not have evolved in intelligence], superstitious [instinctive rather than cognitive], or even dead [extinct]. The other is likely to be quite the opposite. They would not have bourn a resemblance to each other since they were very young, yet they are still related.
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