this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. To become an evolutionarily distinct population, something (and yes it IS MUTATION, duplication or gene conversion) non-fatal must prevent a portion of a population from mating with others while allowing them to mate with each other. This can even be geography. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...btw, i have a PhD in molecular biology so more often than not, I'm confused by the techno-lingo here but definitely not this area.
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this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. To become an evolutionarily distinct population, something (and yes it IS MUTATION, duplication or gene conversion) non-fatal must prevent a portion of a population from mating with others while allowing them to mate with each other. This can even be geography. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...btw, i have a PhD in molecular biology so more often than not, I'm confused by the techno-lingo here but definitely not this area.