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Darwin was the father of natural selection. He believed in evolution. But he never said he believed humans were apes or that they necessarily used to be apes. He never applied his theory to humans.

Darwin did think that we were apes he had all of his therories and other research written and others found it

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Human beings are already considered apes. As humans, we and the rest of the apes (save for the Gibbons) are descendants of the Biological Family, hominidae. After observing similarities in behavior, physical anatomy, genetics, and fossil ancestry, we now have overwhelming evidence of our evolution and descent from ancient apes.

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Human beings are not apes. We are related to them however, all being primates.

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No. All he said was that humans and apes have a common ancestor.

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