![]() ![]() The common male chimpanzee ahs long arms and when they are extended, they are longer than the legs and are as long as the height of the body. The female chimpanzees are smaller in size. The male common chimpanzee is around 5.6 feet in height when standing up and weighs around 70 kg. Another argument for this has been that the some of the other species are reclassified and belong to the same genus based on less similarity in the genes than between chimpanzees and human beings. Several scientists propose that Paniscus and troglodytes belong to the genus Homo with sapiens and not in Pan. Some of the differences have occurred in the non coding DNG. However, today after several modifications, this commonality is believed to be around 94%. Chimpanzees had shared a common ancestor with us before six million years ago and in the year 1973, Mary Claire King had found that there is a 99% DNA similarity between us. Both of these species are the closest evolutionary relatives to us. Humans and chimpanzees belong to the Homininae family. The evolutionary relationship between human beings and chimpanzees Now they are considered to the closest living relations. It was before 6 millions years that the chimpanzees split from the human evolution. Along with orang-utans, humans and gorillas, chimpanzees belong to the Hominidae family. ![]() There are two main species of chimps, the Bonobo which can be found in the forests of Congo and the common chimpanzee which are found in Central and West Africa. There is 98.8% similarity in the DNA of human beings and chimpanzees and scientists are still doing research to know exactly how similar we are to get an insight to the common roots that we share.Ĭhimpanzees, or as they are commonly known to us, chimps are the closest living relations to human beings. However, chimpanzees are still the closest relatives of human beings to still exist. Human beings did not evolve directly from the chimpanzees but chimpanzees too have spent millions of years evolving on their own just like us. Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of how human beings originated since years and over the years the chimpanzees have been a vital clue. ![]()
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