Human evolutionary history Humans show similarities with ‘apes’ (gibbons, orang, gorilla, chimps) • shared derived traits : large brain, no tail, more upright posture other Old World monkeys ‘apes’ and humans increased brain size loss of tail upright posture
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Human evolutionary history Humans show similarities with ‘apes’ (gibbons, orang, gorilla, chimps) shared derived traits: large brain, no tail, more upright.
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Human evolutionary history
Humans show similarities with ‘apes’ (gibbons, orang, gorilla, chimps)
• shared derived traits: large brain, no tail, more upright posture
other Old World monkeys ‘apes’ and humans
increased brain sizeloss of tail
upright posture
Human evolutionary history
Which are closer: gorilla & chimps or humans & chimps?
• are traits shared derived versus convergent / lost?
human
similarities inteeth, skull, genitals
gorilla
?chimps
human
knucklewalkingmorphology
gorilla chimps
Human evolutionary history
Molecular data suggests chimps and human are close relatives