Compare And Contrast Apes And Human Primates

The last grade that will be discussed is grade IV that include apes and man. There are a couple of primates that are part of a superfamily called Hominoidea, which include siamangs, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. Humans and apes have a lot of things in common as far as behavior and characteristics for example Apes and humans are the most intelligent primates because they are reliant on of survival, they are both omnivores, as time went on their tail began to vanish to help with standing up on two feet, they both do not have a tail and even have some of the same diseases. Studies suggest that apes are more alike than humans. Apes can live all over the world. The gorilla is the largest ape in the family and

They have long arms that make bipedalism form because small legs can’t support a massive gorilla. Gorillas are the largest species of living primate and they can walk bipedally for a little while if necessary (O’Neil 2012). Apes have thick fur, thick muscle tissue for surviving changing cold weather, and different color hair on the top of their head. Chimpanzee are known to be the closest relative to humans because they can walk on two feet. Gibbons and the orangutans are from South East Asia and bonobos, chimps and gorillas can be found in Africa. Gibbons and siamangs are the smallest of the apes they have long and thick bodies, and it is often referred to as the “lesser ape”. It grows to be about 3ft tall and weigh about 12-25 lbs. There are many different species of a gibbon. They have very long arms which makes them brachiators, they use the suspensory climbing movement and can even walk on two feet when they are on twigs. Gibbons have a slender body, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The long arms give the primates the opportunity to jump to over 50 ft and leap 26 ft. The primates have progressed from walking bipedally raising their arms for balance to having shorter thumbs to help them grab on to things

Because of their body structure they are not able to swing as good, so they must be able to walk. Orangutans have huge fleshy pads on their upper part of their face and have brown fur. Female orangutans and baby orangutans are arboreal primates, they can swing on trees because they weigh about 100 pounds less than a full-sized male. Orangutans share an alike drooping size and shape as the gorilla. Humans are bipedal primates, bipedalism is an important feature of the earliest hominins line from ape to man. Humans have longer arms and legs, they have very skinny fingers on their hands and an opposable thumb. Hominids grew significant taller around 1.89 million years ago when they started to evolve (O’Neil, 2012). No one knows why exactly hominids began to walk on two legs but there are many theories as to why. Apes and humans are much smarter than any primates, humans began to grow their mind around the Pleistocene era, so they started to develop reasoning, problem solving and the dependence of culture. Although hominids kept some aboriginal features such as curved toes and fingers. Humans began to establish an elongated spine; the hallux is aligned with the toes which is an adaptive feature for walking on two