Has a chimpanzee ever eaten a human?

Answer 1

No, we share a common ancestor.

99.9% of all biologists understand that the evidence provided by Anthropology, Archeology, DNA and Genetic Sequencing show without a doubt that humans and chimpanzees have diverged from a common ancestor.

Although it has commonly been stated in the past that humans and chimpanzees have 98.5% DNA similarity, this figure has recently been found to be incorrect. Newer research has suggested that there is approximately 96% genetic similarity between Humans and chimpanzees overall.

Of course the fine details depend on what specific chromosomes one is looking at. Although 96% of the DNA is similar overall, there are some very significant differences in some chromosomes, where other chromosomes are nearly identical. Specifically, 18 of the chromosomes of humans are nearly identical to those of chimpanzees, the rest are very different (eg: chromosomes 4, 9, 12, 21, and y).

Some specific examples of differences include:

1) Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes in total while chimpanzees have 24.

2) Chimpanzees and other apes have telomeres about 23 kilobases long, whereas humans are completely unique among primates with much shorter telomeres only 10 kilobases long.

3) The Y chromosome in chimpanzees is smaller than that of humans and only 60% of the genes are similar to those of the y chromosome of humans.

REFERENCES:

1. Jennifer F. Hughes et al. 2010. Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content. Nature. Online first. January
2. Archidiacono, N. et al. 1998. 'Evolution of chromosome Y in primates.' Chromosoma 107:241-246.
3. Britten, R.J. 2002. 'Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5% counting indels.' Proceedings National Academy Science 99:13633-13635.
4. Fujiyama, A., et al. 2002. 'Construction and analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map.' Science 295:131-134.
5. Gagneux, P. and Varki, A. 2001. 'Genetic differences between humans and great apes.' Mol Phylogenet Evol 18:2-13.

Answer 2

Yes, humans are apes. Our closest ancestors are the two species of chimpanzee (common and Bonobo), with which we shared a relatively recent common ancestor. That ancestor in turn shared a common ancestor with the gorillas, which shared a common ancestor with the orangutan, which shared a common ancestor with the gibbons, which shared a common ancestor with the Old World Monkeys, which shared a common ancestor with the new world monkeys, which shared a common ancestor with the prosimians (such as lemurs).

Answer 3

The smartest apes have the intellect of a child. However, their problem solving skills rival that of children. Something that may take a young child hours to figure out can often be solved in only a few minutes by a chimp. In addition, their short term memory is superior to that of humans. Despite this, it should be remembered that their brains are one-third the size of ours. They will never be able to equal our intelligence unless something within their natural environment (or human testing) forces them to grow larger brains.

Answer 4

No. Chimpanzees are great apes. Both apes and monkeys are primates, though.

Many monkeys have tails and Apes do not.

Answer 5

Humans are apes. Humans and monkeys are both primates but "monkey" refers to a large group of primates in the Primate order, but not that of the apes. so, in other words...no.

Answer 6

No. Although closely related they are not human.

Answer 7

Yes, in Uganda on several instances in the last 8 years.

Answer 8

The chimpanzee is a primate.