So, while it's not true that human beings evolved from monkeys, if you stretch your thinking you can see how monkeys can be considered relatives of ours.

因此，尽管人类从猴子演变而来不是真的，但如果你发散思维，就会明白为什么会说猴子是我们的近亲。

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The modernists, on the other hand, accepted the theory advanced by Charles Darwin---that all animal life, including monkeys and men, had evolved from a common ancestor.

而另一方面，现代主义者接受达尔文提出的理论，即所有动物的生命，包括猿与人，均从同一祖先演化而来。

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Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."

两天后小女孩问了她的爸爸同样的问题，她的爸爸回答：“很久以前有一些猴子，人类就是从这些猴子进化来的。”

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