Compare And Contrast Apes And Primates

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It’s a known fact that apes have been around for over 4 billion years. Much longer than humans have been around. They’ve been around for about 200,000 years. There is proven theories that we evolved from apes. Considering that we share similarities along with the obvious differences. For example behavioral ways would be the similarities with humans and primates. Living different life styles would fall more towards the ape section of this essay because they have been living in wild life since they’ve been around, and communication skills would be more towards humans since we are more advanced in the way of us having the ability to communicate in various ways . Similarities humans and apes share are our behavioral ways. Such as how primates and humans say “no.” For example, an infant is playing with their food, or is behaving a certain way in which they shouldn’t be. The mother of that infant would shake her head at the infant and that would …show more content…
The way humans communicate, not only their ability of communicating with each other but with animals as well (pets.) Humans have more than one way of communicating, there is talking, writing, making art, and also sign language for the hearing impaired. Meanwhile, apes are very limited. They usually use noises and gestures to communicate with their surroundings; they’re not able to talk or yell to express their feelings. Primates usually just make their gestures relevant to the emotion they are feeling, and the noises they make would apply to that as well. Humans also have more interest into a variety of things. Like religious views, cultural habits, also the main thing that controls everybody is social media. Since humans use their advanced sense of communication that leads them on to do other things, apes are not able to do so because they are not as advanced of human. But talking always leads to other things, in this case it would be having more beliefs and

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