[zylphed]

There's some controversy over what to call the taxonomy. There is virtually no controversy over what the taxonomy actually is. Which is that chimpanzees and humans are more closely related than gorillas and chimpanzees. And if chimps and gorillas are apes, then so are we. Maybe you'd object less if we called chimps, gorillas and humans "hominids" rather than "apes."

[joseph20]

Which is that chimpanzees and humans are more closely related than gorillas and chimpanzees.

It doesn't look that way on the face of it. Lined up all 3 in a row, I'd pick out the two sloped-back hairy beasts with hands for feet as being more alike than the bare-skinned frail-framed body of a human.