Our Moron Ancestors
Wook at the itty bitty pwimate! That’s our great1,000,000 grandpa there, our 29-million year old ancestor, and the last common relative we shared with gorillas and apes, besides certain politicians. Har. It means that braininess came after the split: all three branches of the family evolved it independently. The little guy was about the size of a cat.
Gotta love the name: Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, “Linking Egyptian Ape”. Does that make a lover of links a “zeuxophile”? Cuz man, that Jimmy Dean…
