Gorillas Vs Humans

Natural Selection is one of the most interesting aspects that developed by the process and is given to the environmental primates. The evolutionary process is for the survival of the fittest,it has proteins that travel from the DNA. The changes focus on life of the primates and are responsible for the phenotype that makes each one of us different than the rest. Since humans are primates, humans and apes have been said to share a lot of similarities. In chapter six, it talked about traits from non human primates to characteristics. More efficient, greater dependence of flexible learned behavior. Other than humans,primates consist of lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. Primate social behavior is understanding the concepts distinguished

In the video, the uniqueness of humans by Robert Sapolsky, explains how animals are not that different than humans. Dr. Sapolsky explains even though animals and humans look different, we all have similar genes. Furthermore, when he breaks down what makes humans unique, he correlates animals` behavior with human behavior; in which, involuntarily makes humans and animals have the same behavior. Dr. Sapolsky shows that even though humans and animals have similar behaviors, humans thought process is more advanced than animals.

Thus, I was able to observe some similarities among these species. The way the female chimp used tools, and her fingers to grab food, how she used to be on her feet, freeing her hands, groom her child, educate her offspring, sleep with him while snuggling, use a lot of face emotions to convey a message to an individual; she smiled at her baby, laughed when playing, and tickling him, remind me of human. She also has a flat pink face, hands’ palm, and feet sole as humans do. Furthermore, the gorilla was also really human when he protected his eyes from the intense sunrays, following the movement of the sun, and sat in the shade, mated with a female, scratched his head, and bottom, and put his finger in his nose. I think that these humans’ pattern appeared for similar reasons as in the Primates. For instance, when the gorilla scratches his bottom, it is because the area is itchy, and he wants to remove what is indisposing him. In addition, the mother chimp educates her kid to transmit knowledge throughout generation, which is the same for humans, who go to school.

Gentle, peaceful & shy are the words that describe gorillas. Gorillas in the mountains & eastern lowland areas are totally vegetarian & eat leaves, fruits, & stems like bamboo. On the other hand, gorillas in the Western lowlands eat small invertebrates & insects apart from plants. It’s anticipated that approximately 80% of gorilla population’s extinct, because of the destruction of their habitat, humans hunting them down & diseases as a result of Ebola

Primates first evolved from the trees of tropical forests, later to the ground. Through the times of prosimians to human, many characteristics has been represented due to the adaptations to new environments and resulted in evolutionary changes. The Earth has encountered several geological and climatic changes over time. For the primates existed at that time had to adjust itself especially in body configurations and locomotion in order to better survive. It is important to be aware of this information since we are the part of occurring changes as well. Throughout the evolution owing to the transforming environments interacting with natural selection, primates developed their own ways to move better (meaning changes in locomotion) with different types of bodies (meaning changes in body configuration).

All primates are descended from tree-dwellers, showing adaptations which permit for tree climbing which include: a moving shoulder joint, divided big toes as well as the thumb for gripping, and also stereoscopic eyesight.

The earliest humans were tree dwellers and occasionally walked on the ground. Around 6 million years ago our ancestors started walking on two legs. They developed an angled thigh bone to support the weight of their bodies when they stand upright. This lead to a strengthened knee to deal with the stress from walking

First, evidence from the hominid fossil Ardy and archaeological evidence from the same area where Ardy was found points to the evolution of bipedalism in a woodland environment. This goes against the previous assumption that bipeds adapted to a more desolate environment. Additionally, it was also previously believed that bipedalism started with organisms that walked on two legs and their knuckles as a today’s chimp walk. However, there is no evidence in Ardy’s bones that it ever walked using its knuckles. On the other hand, Ardy possesses a short, broad hipbone which allows for bipedalism, but also a much longer lower half of the pelvis which would be more useful for climbing. Consequently, while Ardy could walk on two legs, it could not walk as well as future bipeds such as the fossil Lucy or modern humans. Lucy is often described as “the ape who stood up” and is further down the evolutionary track toward modern humans. This evolutionary adaptation to stand and walk on two legs opened great doors for humankind. Most important was the fact that walking on two limbs rather than four freed up our very special hands and empowered humankind to build tools and reshape the world as no creature could

On modern earth there are five basic groupings of monkeys and primates that relate to physical attributes. These groups are called Prosimian, tarsier, new world monkeys/old world monkeys, apes and hominins. Humans are featured in the super family known as hominoideas, this family includes both apes and hominins. Apes are described as having large bony eye ridges and flattened noses. The term hominin refers to the more human apes that contain examples such as orang-utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Hominids generally have quite large bodies and bigger brains than most other primates, humans differ to all other hominins as they are bipedal and all other hominin are predominantly quadrupedal but all hominids possess bipedal shaped

We have always differences and similarities Humans, Bonobos and chimps are close relatives in evolution. Chimps and bonobos can be considered as siblings and humans as their first cousin. We are so similar in many aspects that humans seem to have a very marginal

Bipedalism was the first evolutionary change to define the hominid lineage. It was a major evolutionary change that changed the way we move. Bipedalism is the condition of using two feet for standing and walking. Before bipedalism emerged we were walking on all fours just as many animals do presently. Bipedal locomotion dates back to 7 million years ago with one of the candidates which is Sahelanthropus tchadensis. The other two candidates for the earliest bipedal hominid are Orrorin tugenesis, and Genus Ardipithecus. This evolutionary change brings about several benefits such as being better adapted to live on savannas, having freed hands, more efficient for travel, and better regulation of body temperature. However, similar to many evolutionary changes, Bipedalism comes with “costs” or disadvantages. These disadvantages include our loss of speed, and more stress on lower body joints including the spine.

According to the report of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institute of Health presented in 2005, chimpanzees share 96% of the human gene sequence. It allows to draw a conclusion that humans and chimpanzees are very closely related to each other, and this relation is great than between humans and other species, such as gorillas or orangutans. Regarding evolution of humans, it is also interesting to note that according to taxonomists originally both humans and apes belonged to the same superfamily of primates, but later they were separated into families: humans - to Hominidae, and apes – to Pongidae. (Steffof,

Approximately 4 million years ago a wonderful evolutionary phenomenon was happening in Africa. Early hominids, man’s ancestors, were beginning a giant leap in their evolution. These hominids were moving out of the forest and beginning to walk upright, out on the open plains (Fagan, 98). This change from quadrupedalism was the most significant adaptation that ever happened to these early hominids. It caused many adaptations that make man what he is today. This process occurred in early hominids for many different reasons, each reason helping to perfect the upright walking posture. Bipedalism is thought to have occurred because of changes in environment, feeding habits, thermal regulation, and

One of the hypotheses show that bipedal mutation might caused by hairless mutation which separated the early chimpanzee to hairless human and hairy chimpanzee lineages. (Sotou 2012). Based on the behaviors of apes or monkeys, the babies attach themselves to their mother by grasping the mother’s hair, therefore the female apes or monkeys could use their hands to climb or walk (Sotou 2012). On the contrast, hairless mutation has to force the mothers to use their hands to carry their baby due to the baby has nothing to grasp, thereby compelling the mothers to stand upright (Sotou 2012). During the transform, hominins gained the opportunity to divide their forelimbs from quadrupedal locomotion to evolve some human behaviors and increasingly enhance the dexterity of hind limbs (Sotou

There is a common misconception that the modern day human has evolved from chimpanzees. This would be incorrect. The two species evolved separately. Chimpanzees have never been a part of the genus homo, and humans have never been a part of the genus pan. Instead, humans have evolved over a long period of time from species that have died off a long time ago.