Combined with other features, it also
suggests other apes have evolved to be significantly different to the common ancestor we share with them.
Not exact matches
Research into non-human Great
Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence
suggesting that
apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and
other apes.
The groundbreaking study
suggests that this skill likely can be traced back to the last common ancestor of great
apes and humans, and may be found in
other species.
Our evolving chemical signature, they
suggest, allowed us to outcompete
other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.
Then he
suggested that many of the unique characteristics of humans and their ancestors, marking them out as different from the
other apes, could be explained as adaptations to spending time in water.
Scientists found clues to
suggest this happened with HIV after detecting a very similar virus in monkeys and in chimpanzees and
other great
apes.
He also mentions genetic studies that claim that humans have more copies of the genes for amylase than
other great
apes strongly
suggesting that humans are designed to digest starch.
This paper
suggested that the unique shape and size of the gluteus maximus in humans (its morphology is very different in
other apes) was caused by our long history of running.
I
suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early
apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the
other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.