[HHFi]

My African gray parrot says they’re all just a bunch of damn dirty apes to him.

[Ukiapah Heep]

But will they program for less money than the H1-B's?

[PizzaDriver]

Lots of folks are brighter than MY closest Relatives!
‘nuf said.

[lawdude]

Right turn, Clyde!

[Sam Cree]

Where do dolphins fit on the list, I wonder.

[Smokin' Joe]

He also found that in some food-rich areas the creatures had developed a complex culture in which adults would teach youngsters how to make tools and find food.

The less time spent foraging, the more time for other pursuits.

I noticed bonobos were not in the top 10, but their females seem to have the whole provender thing figured out... (ducks...)

[Zeroisanumber]

Why would it surprise anyone that the animal more closely related to man is the dumber one?

[TOneocon]

I had to look twice and I couldn’t see the word >democrat< on the list. You would think it should be near the top.

[pyx]

Both orang-utans and chimpanzees share about 96% of their DNA with humans

What percentage of DNA does a iguana lizard share with human beings ?
95 % ? 94 % ? or 93% ?

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

Yeah, right! ;)

[The_Republican]

I am totally disappointed with Babboons.

[dr_lew]

The controversial findings challenge the widespread belief that chimpanzees are the closest to humans in brainpower. They also suggest that the ancestry of orang-utans and humans may be more closely entwined than had been thought.

I don't see this. They later state that intelligence correlates well with brain size. In evolutionary terms, that's no different than, say, liver size. So the quoted statement would be no different than saying Orangs must be "closely entwined" with human evolution because they have similarly large livers.

BTW, the "widespread belief" that chimps are closely related to humans is a reference to genetic comparisons that make no reference to any particular trait, but are base on similarities between actual DNA sequences. In this regard, I think this evidence has to be taken as irrefutable, insofar as you accept the physical ground of life on earth in the spatiotemporal sphere.

[Nick Danger]

Smarter than gorillas, eh?

[AndrewC]

Oh, yeah?

[highlander_UW]

So this moves liberals down to what number?

[Daffynition]

I hate to be the one to break it to ya' but Chimps Are More Evolved Than Humans

[Silly]

Where do they fall on the Bell Curve?

[SunkenCiv]

Orangutans and human origins
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh

Humans have a larger number of features that are uniquely shared with orangutans than with any other living ape. Schwartz (1984) proposed that humans are more closely related to orangutans than to chimpanzees - a model that contradicts the greater genetic similarity of base pair sequences in humans and chimpanzees.

The view presented here is that genetic similarity of base pair sequences is not a necessary measure of phylogenetic relationship and that morphology continues to exist as an independently reliable source of information on evolutionary relationships. The orangutan model presents a conundrum for biological systematics over how to chose between morphological and genetic evidence when they are in conflict.

Higher Primates May Have Asian Root
by B. Bower
Science News
October 16, 1999

Researchers working in southern Asia have discovered 40-million-year-old fossil teeth and jaw fragments that, in their view, support the controversial notion that anthropoids originated in Asia. The find in Myanmar represents a new species, Bahinia pondaungensis, in the anthropoid group, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans, reports a team led by anthropologist Jean-Jacques Jaeger of UniversitÈ Montpellier-II in France. The teeth show key similarities to those of Eosimias, a 45-million-year-old fossil creature from China that may also have been an early anthropoid (SN: 11/11/95, p. 309)... Jaeger and his coworkers view their new find as evidence for a much earlier origin of anthropoids in Asia, perhaps 55 million to 60 million years ago. In November 1998, the researchers recovered two fragmentary upper jaws and a broken lower jaw, each retaining a number of teeth, belonging to Bahinia. The same excavation level yielded the lower jaw of a previously identified species known as Amphipithecus. Jaegerís group views Amphipithecus as a more anatomically advanced anthropoid that lived at the same time as Bahinia.

The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan

"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"

[SunkenCiv]

the only keyword?

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[SunkenCiv]

Blam, this should be of interest to you. But at the first sign of bloodbath, I'm outta here...

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