Why can’t it be said that man descended from the great apes?

The development of man and great apes is not successive steps, but parallel branches of evolution, the divergence between which in the evolutionary terms is very deep. That is, humans and modern apes had a common ancestor. Further, their evolutionary development followed the path of divergence (divergence of signs, accumulation of differences) in connection with adaptation to specific and different conditions of existence.



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