Question

What does this analysis suggest about the current classification of Great Apes (chimpanzees & gorillas) in one family and Humans in another? How should the classification be changed in order to represent evolutionary relationships more accurately?

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Answer 1

Question :- a.) What does this analysis suggest about the current classification of Great Apes (chimpanzees & gorillas) in one family and Humans in another?

b.) How should the classification be changed in order to represent evolutionary relationships more accurately?

Answer

a.) That, the closest living relatives of human are their chimpanzee/bonobo individuals from a similar subfamily "Homininae" in comparison to Gorillas. Human shares 96% of DNA with chimpanzee. Since evolution is on-going, man keeps on evolving thus do chimpanzees; both of them share much in their genotypic and phenotypic legacy.

b.) Classification can be changed in order to represent evolutionary relationships between Human, Chimpanzee and Gorilla more accurately by reordering the families of Apes and Great Apes from Human. Refer to the cladogram below.

-HUMAN S GDRILLAS ORANGUTANS OLD 0ORLD MONKEY

From this, unmistakably we can't keep on calling humans hominidae and the non-human primates "Pongidae" for a similar reason that we need to call birds dinosaurs.

The way things are, there are two types of chimpanzee: the regular chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo or "dwarf chimpanzee" (Pan paniscus). We are so similar to these two chimpanzees that a few scientists advocate characterizing people (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees in similar variety either renaming people as Pan sapiens or the renaming the chimpanzees as Homo troglodytes and Homo paniscus.