Homininae

The intelligent and aggressive species known as the chimpanzee is recognized as the most closely related animal to humans in the world. At one time it was believed that gorillas and chimps were the most closely related, until new technologies were developed resulting in the finding that humans share a massive 99% of our DNA with these creatures. Chimpanzees are classified in the genus known as Pan, along with the species bonono, but not with humans. Humans are classified in their own genus known as Homo. The controversy of whether or not the species should be moved into the Homo group along with humans has been contemplated for many years. Although, chimps and human share almost indicial in their DNA, I believe that chimpanzees should not be classified in the genus Homo because they do have the same developed social skills, appearance, and the brain capacity to perform such tasks as humans can. Chimpanzee’s social and communal skills are not nearly as developed as well as human’s are. Chimps interact with one another by bonding, mating, and fight just like humans, but they cannot communicate through speaking simply because they do not have this ability. Chimps are often affectionate to one another through hugging and kissing just as humans are and spend time with one another to build lasting relationships with one another. They often use gestures and facial expressions such as these to express their emotions rather than carrying on a personal conversation as humans do.…

Bright, fluorescent lights shine down, irritating his eyes as a man in a long, white coat pokes needles into his arms. The air is stale and the smell of disinfectant is almost suffocating. His thick arms are restrained and his mouth can form no words, which is just how the man in the long, white coat wants it. Before long, he becomes vocal, screeching to make the pain come to a stop, and it does when he loses consciousness. As he comes to, his need of thirst becomes apparent and he bangs on…

Culture is a society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas and characteristics used to generate behavior and reflect behavior and other primates besides humans, like gorillas, chimps, and orangutans do, in fact, have culture. Chimps copy each other into adulthood developing cultural behaviors by imitating their peers and research on gorillas, chimps and orangutans have shown they use tools, communicate with each other and even mourn the deaths of each other. This research paper will explain…

direct ancestors of hominids. A large number of specimens were unearthed in Lufeng Country, which were divided into Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus. Ramapithecus were considered more closer to be the ancestor of humans and the African great apes. All the specimens found in Lufeng were given a new name as Lufengpithecus lufengensis. On the basis of their characteristics, they were perceived as an anomalous branch in primate evolution, whose lineage were neither orangutans nor hominids. The scholars…