Study calls chimps, humans twigs of the same branch

From: Daily Breeze | Date: May 20, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

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WASHINGTON _ Chimpanzees are more closely related to people than to gorillas or other primates and probably should be included in the human branch of the family tree, a research team says.

The idea, sure to spark renewed debate about evolution and the relationship between humans and animals, comes from a team led by Morris Goodman at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.

Currently, humans are alone in the genus Homo. But Goodman argues, "We humans appear as only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes." He says humans and chimps share 99.4 percent of their ...

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