Is it wrong to say "human beings evolved from..."?

The second thing.

Don't get him started on mental illness or mathmatics either!

I have discovered that he is best ignored.

well, I have to admit "evolved" is a loaded word, it implies "improved."

Ditto what boomer said. Something that's a lot of fun with said member is to give him a taste of his own medicine.

Evolution simply means change, and possibly increased complexity. Improvement has nothing to do with it.

it's implied.

In the popular understanding of evolution, it implies progress (improvement). As far as biologists are concerned, the scientific use of the term simply means change.

"Improvement" is just the view from atop the hill. Its hardly valid and , if dinosaurs werent wiped out, who knows what they would have evolved through.Since genomes preserve the history of the evolution of species, they clearly display the great similarities between living species. Thats because genes, once incorporated into the "barcode" dont have to be re-evolved, they are merely added unto. The increasing similarity of mans geno,me to a mouses is about 25%, but those percentages are in important morphological features and behavior. While there is no gene for an animals "left nut", compound genic arrays are responsible for the morphologies of animals. As far as jumping from bacteria to unicellular animals, there are many theories about how it happened. Margulis's "capturing genomes" makes as much sense as any since many plants and animals share entire groups of genes that display specific morphological features, for example, keratin appears in the shells of arthropods and the stalks of lichens. These genesequences are EXACT. Somebody passed a note while teacher wasnt looking. Margulis has had more acceptanceof late , to what was earlier considered a wild ass hypothesis.

As far as "improvement implied" , its a game of dice, with maybe 10000 individual dice, its nothing but ADAPTATION.
Vraptors had at least 30 species and each had some unique feature that , had they persisted as a family, they might be the pinnacle species today. Drivin their new VelociPorsches and sipping "Dragon wine" at Trader Vics.

No, it's not wrong to say 'evolved' et al - for it's scientific fact and reality. If anyone has a problem with that, then kindly protest the use of the phrase 'and on the first day...'