Which are more closely related to humans genetically? Chimapnzees or Bonobos Apes?

Question

Most people say that Chimps are only 3% different than humans on the genetic level but I've also heard that Bonobos Apes, also known as Pygmy Chimpanzees, are only 1.5%. Which is correct?

Answer 1

I believe it is the Bonobos:  http://www.livescience.com/animals/04122...

http://anthropik.com/2006/03/our-closest...

Answer 2

Depends on who us doing the cladogram. I would say they are the same distance from humans.

Answer 3

Humans and chimps share 98% of the same dna. Chimps are our closest animal relatives, bar none.

Answer 4

I've always heard chimpanzees represented us the most.

Answer 5

They had a common ancestor a couple of million years ago.  That is the starting point where any difference from humans would accumulate down both the chimp lineage and the bonobo lineage.  If a genetic test showed one was closer, it should be regarded as a likely mistake in the process.  They are probably nearly identical but one could have had less selection pressures.  They have significantly revised the percent difference as we became able to read large frame shift type mutations.  The 3% number sounds like it included the large frame shift type data.

Answer 6

The beloe linked report from 1997 says that chimps are 1.6 percent diffrent, and our closest relative.

Answer 7

Both, but I haven't read any DNA results on the Bonobo.

I'd guess that we share better than 98 % with both.

Answer 8

Bonobo chimpanzees are a sub species of chimp, they are 98.4% identical gentically to humans. They are a bit closer to humans than normal chimps. I've got a good pic of one here.

http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpre...

They also have a LOT of recreational s*x, and the females have little rounded almost human b*****s

Answer 9

eb knows what he is talking about.  Bonobos seem to have changed less from the common ancestor than did common chimps.  Even though they split from humans at the same time, there is still a possibility in my opinion that one group changed more from the common ancestor.  Common chimp males, especially, have developed features that are different than bonobos and humans and probably the common ancestor in my opinion.  Bonobos seem to live in a more peaceful society whereas common chimps evolved into more agressive and more capable fighters and this might account for the acquired features.

Answer 10

Common chimps and Bonobos split apart from each other after they split apart from humans.  So they're kind of the same distance.  I think of it like:

humans have the code 123

common chimps have the code 145 and

bonobos have the code 146

They're both the same as us in the first part of the code.  In the second part, they're both different from us, and both the same as each other.  In the third part they're different from each other, but neither one of them is the same as us in that part.

Also note that bonobos are a type of chimpanzees.  The non-bonobo chimpanzees are called common chimpanzees.