Are banobos the closest relation of humans, genetically speaking?
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Pan paniscus, pygmy chimp, bonobo... whatever you call them, yes they are our closest genetic relatives. Behaviorally they are a lot more human-like as well. It's eerie watching videos of them sometimes, because they can walk fully upright without bent knees for several steps (the common chimp walks with bent knees when it walks upright).\n\nHowever that does not mean that they are our ancestor, because they've been evolving for 6+ million years as well since we split from a common ancestor. Chimps and humans shared the last common ancestor; before that, the common ancestor was to gorillas, chimps and humans.\n\nThere are a few types of chimps, including Pan troglodytes (I think that's spelled correctly) which is a very close relative to the pygmy chimp.
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DNA evidence. There's like 98% match between a human and a chimpansee.\n\nFossil record - they keep finding ancestors of modern species, which helps draw out the evolution tree.\n\nBacteria developing resistance to drugs.\n\nDifferent breeds of dogs, horses, agricultural plants and animals.
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♥♪♦♫ yes it was said that humans are oringinated from the ape family. I hope that I have helped you.♥♪♦♫
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Yes. Their Family tree is in the link below.
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We share a recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and gorillas; we have many \nanatomical, \ngenetic, \nbiochemical, \nand even behavioral similarities with these African great apes.\n We are less similar to the Asian apes--orangutans and gibbons--and even less similar to monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past. \nOf course we cant interbreed!!!! we have 23 sets of chromosomes and apes have 24!!!!!
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Well since it is strongly argued among anthropologists that homo sapiens is not a direct descendant of neandertals but instead we are both ancestors of some lineage involving homo erectus.\n\nI guess that would be like taking a chimpanzee for a wife.  But then there are recent arguments that there was a lot in interbreeding between the two species and that the inferior neandertals genetics gave in to ours and they became extinct.\n\nMaybe it would be more like taking something that is maybe partway between a chimp and us.  Even though chimps are our closest living relatives, genetically speaking, they are certainly more different from us than neandertals were.\n\nTo answer your question, no! No, I wouldn't.
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Basically all mammals are genetically similar to humans. But some more so than others like dolphins and the great apes, i.e. Chimpanzees and gorillas of which we are 98% genetically identical.
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Absolutely none.  "Missing Link" or "Transitional species or fossils" have not yet been found.  Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern men) have no connection to other species, contrary to what evolutionists would like us believe.  Unfortunately, most common textbooks on biology claims that there are hundreds of transitional fossils that have been found.  These so called evidences are uncomplete and therefore, unreliable.  SOme of the fossils that have been reconstructed are actually mixed bones of various species.  The Peking Man, was found out to be a hoax, being constructed from the bones of a man with arthritis and that of a pig.
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No. All humans are descended from the first Homo sapiens to leave Africa. Cro-Magnons are descended from them as well, but not all human populations are of European descent.
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no.  gorillas and humans certainly shared a common ancestor, which was an ape that lived about 5 to 10 million years ago, but the morphological and genetic data indicate that we are not directly descended from the gorillas themselves.
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our genetic code is 99.999 % similar.\n\nsince human species has not arrived too long (on a geological/whatever scale) the varation of genes between humans is very little.\n\nthere is much more genetic varaibility between chimps, monkeys, cows, rats etc....than between humans.
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I agree; humans and modern monkeys share a common ancestor.  Homosapien sapien (what *we* are) actually directly descended from homo erectus.  \n\nAll the scientific evidence backs this common descent up, btw.  We share a common morphology with chimps as well as a common molecular make up, which indicates that we share a common ancestor.  How else would you rationally explian it?\n\nFurthermore we share malfunctioning genes.  One in particular is a gene that prevents our bodies from producing vitamin C.  It seems that far back in our line of descent one of our distant ancestors was able to produce vitamin C.  This production was halted by a mutation - a mutation that all modern chimps share with us.  This is powerful evidence for a common lineage between chimps and humans because the best explanation is that this mutation was passed on through our evolutionary heritage.  \n\nThe creationist answer is, quite frankly, retarded.  They would have us believe that an all knowing and all benevolent entity created humans and chimps with a gene that produces vitamin C AND a gene that inhibits it's production.  An *intelligent* designer would just not have put in the genes for producing vitamin C in the first place!
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There is no proven connection at this time, hence it being a "theory." There are definite similarities, like we share 93% of the same genetic similarities with orangutans.
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Very similar to humans - I believe monkeys and apes all have 24 pairs.
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Genetic research actually showed that the ancestors of humans and apes did split apart at different points in time. \nUnfortunately this doesn't leave us in a better position to get out own biological family after all: \nOrang Utans, Gorillas and Chimpanzees are actually a lot closer related to each other than to humans. On the other hand, humans and bonobo chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) are more closely related to each other than to any other ape - we shared the same branch for quite a while after it split off the rest of the apes. \nSo I suppose either we end up in the family Pan with the other apes or we will have to take the Bonobos into the human family.
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believe it or not...bats are most closely related to primates!
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All life on Earth is related to some degree, so the answer has to be 'yes' for any two orgsnaisms you care to name. \n\nAre sharks related to dolphins? Yes.\nAre jellyfish related to bananas? Yes.\nAre bacteria related to ostriches? Yes.\n\nIn fact maggots and termites are fairly losely related, both being insects. \n\nMaggots are the larval form of various fly species, kind of like fly catterpillars. Termites belong to a 'primitive' group of insects that don't have a true larval form. Instead they hatch out looking like minitaure adults. So, although they are both insects, maggots and termites are about as distantly related as it's possible for two insects to be.\n\nThat makes termites and maggots about as closely related as a whale and a kangaroo.