lol, I unfortunately was one of the ones selected to evolve. Used to dream about being tarzan as a kid. Bollocks innit?

Not me.

I was forced into this shit.

Aw, I was spoiling for a good science debate.

Yes, being able to hang from a tree with your tail is very alluring, gotta admit that!

It makes no sense to me. Maybe depression colours my thinking here but my word, Monkeys have a great life.

I'm going to live in a tree.

lol wish I could go live in a tree! Silly Ardipithicus ramidus standing up and walking and then silly Homo habilis making tools. Wish we were all monkeys out there still swinging from the trees!

To think, they thought they were so smart chucking a stone to get dinner. Ha! Hindsight eh? :P

lol yups!! I think though that the worst thing that our ancestors ever did was domesticate plants and figure out how to get a big crop yield. Pretty much everything turned to crap after this.

Well, but from an evolutionary perspective, aren't we humans just a bunch of mostly hairless monkeys?

Speak for yourself Perennial!!

I have lovely, long, luxurious, locks! (Like the alliteration??)

And no! we are NOT hairless monkeys! We are hairless APES thank you very much! I for one do NOT have a tail! LOL

Thanks for the smiles everyone. You've made my day!

lol, class! I often wonder who'd give up the chance to be an eagle, or big cat, or monkey too!

We are all great apes...otherwise we would be in the same subfamily as gibbons and have super long arms to hang from trees. lol anyways I would totally chose to be a big cat over a hairless great ape. I know I would love the improved reflexes, night vision, and beautiful fur, no more sunburns! lol

Oh! MichES!!! I KNOW you are NOT dissing my beloved gibbons!!

::dropping into gibbon-esque fighting stance and calling out a long wailing, whooping war cry::

lol TriviaQueen my superior Chimp fighting stance mixed with my Gorrilla chest pounding and intimidating running towards you beats your Gibbon war cry.
lol jk I actually love Gibbons...chimps and gorillas can be real bastards!! (Thank you Primate Ecology class)...did you know when a chimp attacks a person in men they will actually attack the groin and in women they will attack their chest! Nasty buggars!

Well, sure! Your chimp stance *would* beat my gibbon stance -- if you could catch me!! Ain't no chimp keeping up w/ a gibbon if there is a branch w/in 3 feet. Check out this great video of gibbon pranks!
http://youtu.be/5qqdovHOgvU

But you are so right! Chimps can be downright mean!!