[Sofa King]

"For example, if you saw an ape and a human, you could tell the two apart very easily, but if you saw an ape skull and a human skull without their "outer shell" it would be much harder to classify."

Taking aside structural differences between a human and a chimp which can be judge from a skeleton, what is the major difference between a human's "outer shell" and an chip's "outer shell" aside from a greater amount of hair?

[Rudder]

We are all furry little beasts in human suits.

[JohnnyM]

There are things like skin color and musculature, but what I meant by outer shell was more of a full representation of the specimen with his flesh and all. So skeletal structure and body posture would apply to the classification. I can recognize a human from an ape with no problem. I can even recognize a severed human head from a severed ape head, what I may not be able to classify is a human skull and an ape skull.

JM