So Chimps are the conservative side of the family?
It is not likely they were ideologically or politically inclined at all-apes did/do not have the mental capacity for that. Arguably, neither do liberals.
It has become pretty obvious that humans had been traveling around by boat as well as on their patamobiles for quite some time by 25,000 years ago. The ones smart enough to paddle/sail along the ice sheets that kept them within sight of land were obviously conservatives...