@Mocha-Shakea-Khan
Humans did not breed dogs into existence
This is mostly true. Dogs split off from wolves 20-40,000 years ago, but we only have evidence for deliberate breeding by humans back to about 10,000 years ago. Much of the domestication process would have happened before that.
Most modern breeds are the result of deliberate breeding, of course, including all the breeds we see in Jack's special class.
and dogs did not evolve directly from wolves. Dogs and wolves were a divergent evolution; they evolved from a similar ancestor.
This is
mostly false; pretty much all the extinct critters that may have given rise to dogs are classified as wolves, and you'd call them wolves if you saw them alive. (The jury is still out on whether dog ancestors would qualify as
gray wolves in particular, because canids interbreed like crazy and their evolutionary tree is super-messy. But they definitely fell into the group represented by gray, Indian, and Tibetan/Himalayan wolves.)
Put another way, Jack's not wrong to think that Lugosi closely resembles his own ancestors...uh, except for the komodo dragon grandpa thing.
Its similar to humans; we didn't evolve from apes we evolved from a similar ancestor.
We didn't evolve from any
modern ape species, but we definitely did evolve from earlier apes, and apes we remain. Our last common ancestor with chimpanzees was neither chimp nor human, but it would be easily recognizable as a generic ape: opposable thumb, broad shoulders and chest, flat face, no tail, etc.
Now, there is an ongoing debate about the term "monkey" within biology, and whether it's appropriate to say that humans and other apes are also monkeys. But the definition of "ape" is considerably more settled than that.
