Ape Clarification

Ape Clarification - that they have no tails

[PBD-rmtp]

You've got to love Sal, what an enthusiastic and educated communicator of science he is. Thank you, Sal, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos.

[KeslinDemas]

Just FYI, I am impressed with your ability to clearly explain all of these concepts in your videos with in depth information and yet still keep the attention of my 6 year old. She loves watching all of these videos on Kahn Academy. Thank you for helping to keep my daughter interested in math and science!

[Dewm]

That last sentence :D cracked me up :P

[SmilingDoom]

"Clearly, this great ape right here did not have a great sense of style in 1994 and really didn't feel the need to have a haircut." LOL! <3

[KoalaBearWarrior]

I laughed really hard at this vid!!! Thanks!

[featheredfan]

Great apes do have tail bones BTW. We also go through a partial gill forming stage during our fetal development incubations. Thanks

[otamanlvhs]

I'm religious;I go to church every Sunday but I still enjoy learning science.No one really witnessed how we came to be, so to me it's better to be open to all things. Don't blame religious people because there's nothing wrong with believing in God.

[sarangave]

12 years already?? U still rule this platform... ✨😅

[scarlettjia]

lol! Thanks for fixing that - it was really irking me. Maybe you could put a youtube bubbly thing when you were drawing the tail as well :)

[spencergeller]

Educational videos isn't the place for a debate over if God exists or not. Shit, some of my friends are Atheist, some are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc. We all get along. Religous myself, I still believe in Evolution, a time before Moses or Christ. Why must people be so gormless and ignorant?

[NinoCRamone]

We need it in Portugues, please!
Obrigado!

[christopherdunstan]

Larry the Cucumber already taught me this.

[letsomethingshine]

want this, want that... how about less wanting and more realizing and understanding?

[fcdog]

@TrueMetis The tailbone is misnamed. It's the coccyx bone.
Take anthropology or A&P in college and that's what you'll learn:D

[LadyHelenaRavenclaw]

I was born on the year you took that photo! :D

[marcportugal]

lmao @ didn't feel the need to have a haircut

[MRTOWELRACK]

For some who don't understand the difference between a theory and a hypothesis. Evolution is a theory just like gravity is a theory, both are factual concepts and evolution is not a law since it is not a mathematical formula. A theory in science means that it has been tested and yielded positive results which evolution has time after time.

[BackusCreativeImaging]

@fcdog555 Actually apes are monkeys in the exact same way that lizards are amniotes. For example: Birds are archosaurs, but birds are still diapsids because they evidently descended from archosaurs, even though they've lost some characteristics of diapsids. In the same way, humans are still apes, monkeys, eutherians, opistokonts, and well, even fish; technically. This is basic cladistic phylogenetics, the modern way of classifying life. Check out Berkeley's "Evolution 101" site.

[Enlightnd]

@TrueMetis By that logic, humans also have tails...

[aidabach]

You are absolutely cute. You emitting a sense of a charming high school aged tutor. I got fancinated just to want to know how you are going to do your next presentation