[muawiyah]

Hasn't this issue gotten a bit murkier lately? The current thought is that as the various Ape species branched off there was still a lot of intermittent hanky-panky going on among them over millions of years.

That way Orangutangs end up with some "code" in common with humans that the Chimps and Gorillas don't have, and vice versa.

Just one darned thing after the other Fur Shur.

Makes it very difficult to figure out how far removed we all might be ~ if, in fact, we are "removed".

Eventually someone is going to do an experiment and come up with viable cross-breeds all across the spectrum.

[js1138]

You are nuts, you know. You are making stuff up.

[allmendream]

No, the data has continued to confirm the close relationship between humans and chimps, with gorillas and then orangs as the ‘odd men out’.

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/ahrens_just/classification.htm

exactly as is posted on this site.