Like I said on the other thread, we don’t come from any modern monkeys, but apes and old world monkeys are closer than they are to new world monkeys. The common ancestor of the three was clearly a tailed simian, something we would call a monkey if it were unchanged today.
What makes it hard how often they aren’t questions in the sense of things people would like to see answered. They’re repeated as rhetorical devices, to be replaced by others as needed, then used again for a fresh audience.
I have a lot of patience for explaining things to those who don’t understand them, but it doesn’t keep up for those who are hostile to understanding.
