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Beasts of the field

>>573161

Small brains? I don't find that concerning. Take for instance that a Chihuahua is considered the same species as a Great Dane, yet massively differ in size.

>>573171

You could since there's no hard boundaries here.

In the scope of the video it showed clusters of related specimens, ordered by similarity of characteristics. If a specimen falls outside of a certain cluster, it is *unlikely* it is closely related to the specimens in that cluster. Since pan falls outside the cluster which belongs to homo sapiens, it is unlikely that they are closely related to us.

In the christian worldview as you know, human has a rigorous definition of being in the bloodline of Adam. The question remaining then is could chimpanzees have descended from Adam and therefore be considered human? I would say no (and the clusters highly suggest as such), but proving this definitively without conventional dating techniques is no easy task.

>>573175

Well the amount of variability present in his model seems to present the possibility of such, at least to me. Then there's the issue of what Adam and Eve more resembled. Were they more like us, the robust humans, or the small-brained forms that keep cropping up?