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  • Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     OP - June 07, 2009, 08:31 PM
    Great apes laugh like humans when they are tickled, claim scientists, in a study that suggests the origins of laughter can be traced back more than 16 million years.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5444501/Great-apes-laugh-like-people-when-they-are-tickled.html
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #1 - June 07, 2009, 09:16 PM
    Awesome story.    Afro
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #2 - June 07, 2009, 09:17 PM
    Of course they do. We are great apes and we laugh when tickled (well I do at least!) so it is not surprising that other species in the same taxonomic family as us show similar behaviour.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #3 - June 07, 2009, 09:46 PM
    Quote from: aliadiere on June 07, 2009, 09:17 PM
    Of course they do. We are great apes and we laugh when tickled (well I do at least!) so it is not surprising that other species in the same taxonomic family as us show similar behaviour.

    not according to creationists
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #4 - June 07, 2009, 09:51 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on June 07, 2009, 09:46 PM
    not according to creationists


    I think that creationists should be shown these pictures and then asked if they can see how obvious it is that we are relatied.



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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #5 - June 07, 2009, 09:56 PM
    Hey, thats true, he looks like my brother
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #6 - June 30, 2009, 09:10 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on June 07, 2009, 08:31 PM
    Great apes laugh like humans when they are tickled, claim scientists, in a study that suggests the origins of laughter can be traced back more than 16 million years.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5444501/Great-apes-laugh-like-people-when-they-are-tickled.html



    How do you know that some people didn't have hairy babies...then their hairy offspring bred until apes evolved?
  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #7 - June 30, 2009, 09:54 PM
    Because Apes came before humans.  Skeletal records show that the first humans only came 250,000 years ago.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #8 - June 30, 2009, 10:04 PM
    Quote from: Shaneequa on June 30, 2009, 09:10 PM
    How do you know that some people didn't have hairy babies...then their hairy offspring bred until apes evolved?


    Because humans and apes are not separate. Humans are a species of ape. Apes are not a species of human.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #9 - June 30, 2009, 10:26 PM
    Quote from: Shaneequa on June 30, 2009, 09:10 PM
    How do you know that some people didn't have hairy babies...then their hairy offspring bred until apes evolved?

    You realise what you are saying here, Shan? You are saying is is possible that apes (in other words, different species or kinds ) can evolve from humans. If this is the case then there is no way you can claim there is any barrier to other species evolving into humans (or anything else for that matter). In other words, your question implies what you creationists like to call macroevolution.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #10 - June 30, 2009, 10:31 PM
    Quote from: aliadiere on June 30, 2009, 10:04 PM
    Because humans and apes are not separate. Humans are a species of ape. Apes are not a species of human.


    LOL. I was just thinking out loud.
  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #11 - June 30, 2009, 10:32 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on June 30, 2009, 10:26 PM
    You realise what you are saying here, Shan? You are saying is is possible that apes (in other words, different species or kinds ) can evolve from humans. If this is the case then there is no way you can claim there is any barrier to other species evolving into humans (or anything else for that matter). In other words, your question implies what you creationists like to call macroevolution.


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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #12 - June 30, 2009, 10:46 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on June 30, 2009, 10:26 PM
    You realise what you are saying here, Shan? You are saying is is possible that apes (in other words, different species or kinds ) can evolve from humans. If this is the case then there is no way you can claim there is any barrier to other species evolving into humans (or anything else for that matter). In other words, your question implies what you creationists like to call macroevolution.

    But same applies between micro & macroevolution. If you accept microevolution, then again you cannot disprove macroevolution.  The whole creationist argument is so flawed.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #13 - June 30, 2009, 10:46 PM
    Quote from: Shaneequa on June 30, 2009, 10:32 PM
    You're right.  parrot

    Yes. I know.  grin12  So you've become an "evilutionist" then?

    ETA: Yes I realise the creationist argument is flawed but they don't, or more accurately they do but they don't like to admit it. Wink
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #14 - June 30, 2009, 10:50 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on June 30, 2009, 10:46 PM
    But same applies between micro & macroevolution. If you accept microevolution, then again you cannot disprove macroevolution.  The whole creationist argument is so flawed.


    There is no creationist argument, its just a thinking disorder. 
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #15 - June 30, 2009, 11:02 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on June 30, 2009, 10:46 PM
    Yes. I know.  grin12  So you've become an "evilutionist" then?

    ETA: Yes I realise the creationist argument is flawed but they don't, or more accurately they do but they don't like to admit it. Wink


    I slipped and had an accidental evolution moment....but am feeling better now.  Cheesy
  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #16 - June 30, 2009, 11:03 PM
    Does one have to die to receive a Darwin Award? Or can a non-fatal accident count?
  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #17 - June 30, 2009, 11:04 PM
    Why  Huh?
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #18 - June 30, 2009, 11:06 PM
    Ok Shan, what have you done?  Cheesy
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #19 - July 01, 2009, 12:47 AM
    I have a friend who laughs like that Gorilla in the video.  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #20 - July 01, 2009, 07:57 AM
    Does he scratch his armpits too?
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #21 - July 01, 2009, 08:03 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnbKzDkZktQ

    I love what he says at the end of this:

    "Perhaps the most amazing part of the research, that somebody was brave enough to actually tickle a gorilla"
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #22 - July 01, 2009, 08:42 PM
     Cheesy Good point. At least if the goriila was laughing you'd know it was in a good mood.
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  • Re: Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'
     Reply #23 - July 04, 2009, 05:04 PM
    Quote from: Cheetah on June 30, 2009, 10:50 PM
    There is no creationist argument, its just a thinking disorder. 


    Delusional insanity more like it.
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