Weird

[balungaloaf]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21574169-401,00.html?from=public_rss

after skimming this.  i dont get it.  if one is more evolved from our ancestor, how-why-when-what?  shouldnt we have weird cousins or something.

[Janus1]

It underlines that evolution is not a matter of progress towards a goal, and that it is incorrect to assume more intelligent species are “more evolved”.

This is why. What it means is that evolution and intelligence don’t go hand in hand. However many years ago, humans and chimps split from one ancestor. Since then, humans have evolved to speaking, standing upright, and using opposable thumbs. Chimps have evolved in other ways. Our evolutions may have gained us prominence in the animal world because of our intelligence and ability to utilize and make tools, but chimps have evolved on their own further from the original ancestor than we have…these evolutions just didn’t include the speech, intelligence, etc. that we got.

[cystic crypt]

one only needs a small thing/advance to multiply all of the others.
It’s like using an abacus to design a calculator to help form a rudamentary computer, then using that computer to develop a better computer etc. 
One tiny change/mutation in the DNA very early on is considered to have a multiplative/exponential effect on the rest of the branches on that tree.