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1 posted on 06/21/2009 2:43:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests

Are orangutans more likely than chimps to eat your FACE?

51 posted on 06/22/2009 7:58:39 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Join me or die. Can you do any less?" -Mr. Sparkle)
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Looks like != is

Schwartz and Grehan scrutinized the hundreds of physical characteristics often cited as evidence of evolutionary relationships among humans and other great apes—chimps, gorillas, and orangutans—and selected 63 that could be verified as unique within this group (i.e., they do not appear in other primates). Of these features, the analysis found that humans shared 28 unique physical characteristics with orangutans, compared to only two features with chimpanzees, seven with gorillas, and seven with all three apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans). Gorillas and chimpanzees shared 11 unique characteristics.

52 posted on 06/22/2009 8:05:27 AM PDT by AndrewC (Metanoia)
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I had always understood that to be the case because of their complex group hunting behavior. Chimps are far less sophisticated.


53 posted on 06/22/2009 10:27:27 AM PDT by marsh2
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