Vanessa
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Similar to saying that non-human primates are less evolved versions of humans when they aren't. Yes, all primates come from the same general group of species, but that doesn't make us all humans at different stages of the evolutionary scale. Hominids evolved in one direction, while other primate species evolved in another. Just because they haven't evolved into being a hominid by this point, doesn't mean that they have stopped evolving. They fill an evolutionary niche in their ecosystems and they have evolved within that niche to the extent that it benefits their species and allows them to survive.In the context of evolutionary biology as a whole, "more evolved" is misleading.