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What is the three differences between the chimpanzees and human family?

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like how they behave

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  1. A scientific clarification:

    Chimpanzees and humans are members of the same family.  We differ at the genus level.


  2. Humans walk upright, chimps are knuckle walkers, humans are extensive tool users, chimps only use a very limited set of very basic tools, humans are completely insane, chimps are sane enough not to get into the same mess we did.

  3. The de-evolution of man or the evolution of apes??  A relevant question in this point in history.  While apes have made further advances in evolution, like the chimpanzee who learned to read sighn and exspress her emotion the nessesity to servive is of course paramount and evident.  Humans on the other hand have struggled to understand the world around them.  In doing so have learned to controll the environmnet. The world is a smaller place because of it.  As we bump into one culture after another we struggle to controll ourselves.  So hard is thet struggle we have gone far back in evolution to a time when in the jngle we feared the beast and rallied round to kill it.  And we do.  It is clear relevism is a myth we can afford no longer and we have to accept we are in fact animals in a current cruel world.  To have one thought in mind is truely the correct decision.  We are still animals.

  4. Humans are sometimes and should be considered a type of ape.  Chimps may very well have evolved from the same upright ancestor that they share with humans, perhaps Sahelanthropus.  Since then chimps have evolved knucklewalking.  Most paleontologists assume we evolved from a chimp like ancestor but the fossil evidence doesn't support that.  The upright ancestor evolved longer arms and shorter feet to facilitate moving back into the trees.   Much of the differences in physiology are related to those adaptations.  They include a much stronger upper arm and shoulder strength, much larger sexual dimorphism (meaning the males are larger), much stronger bites for eating tougher food, feet with a prehensile big toe for grabing brances, long curved fingers for grabbing branches, and a very large brain that is relatively small compared to humans.   Humans refined the upright walking and have large inner ears for superb balance, we lost our hair (it grew fine) possibly for cooling or due to clothes, and we expanded portions of our brain for speach, creating tools, and working the tools.  It seems, male chimpanzees have diverged farther from the common ancestor probably to fight off enemies such as leopards.

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