Aren't humans just chimpanzees with a higher IQ?

Question

We have 97% of the same genes and DNA in common.

Egotistical chimps, that is.

Answer 1

Chimpanzees are way better dude. Atleast they don't belong 2 any religion to fight against each other. They are so natural !

Answer 2

In a way yes, but I met some chimpanzees in the zoo with a higher IQ than some people lol. We are believed to have evolved from an ancient race of apes not chimpanzees. Chimps share the common ancestors not that we came from them or they came from us.

Answer 3

Scientifically, Our DNA's are very close, but Man was made to be in the image of God! He made man to represent Himself over Creation! Everything is made up of atoms, but those atoms have been formed to create different creatures! When anything dies it becomes all the same thing! ASH!!! That ash is made up, still, of atoms! So to your question, I say, that we are only partly in DNA similiar! No new information goes into that DNA except what was there when the cell first divided! A Chimp will never become a man, just as a man will never become a chimp! That is why Evolution is a hoax! More and more scientists, who truly have open minds are coming to the conclusion that there has got to be something or someone bigger than creation! Some say God, others don't quite want to go that far! But still they are saying that the only evolution happening is Micro-evolution(the type that happens in viruses and bacteria)! To deny God does not make Him not exist! He is still there, just like if you tried to say that air doesn't exist, just because you don't see it!

Answer 4

Everyone knows that chimpanzees are our closest evolutionary relatives. What is interesting is just how much difference that 3% has made. The differences are mostly differences of degree, rather than differences of kind, but one of the things we're really good at and they're not, is learning by watching others. We seem to be really good at empathising with others and putting ourselves 'in their shoes', which is probably why we have made such technological advances, and also why can display such moral goodness and conversely such capacity for evil.

Answer 5

If that were so, we could interbreed with them. We can't. And that disposes of the "we're just like them" silliness.

If that were so, then they would have developed some sort of social structure higher than family. Thay haven't. And that disposes of that.

If that were so, they would be capable of learning a lot more than just circus tricks and sign language. Thay aren't. And that disposes of that.

Sorry, but we're a lot more than just a naked ape.

I'll accept them as equals when it's scientifically proven that they think like us, even if more slowly.

Since EVERY life form on this planet shares the exact same DNA protein molecules, ie; adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine, your contention doesn't hold water.

Nice try, but next time read a few biology textbooks before you espouse an opinion.

Answer 6

NO,
Chimp's are Chimps...Humans are humans...
There might be a 3 % difference but it is large enough to be DIFFERENT!
We do not have FUR covered bodies and WE do use WORDS as communication, Chimps have LEARNED words but not to vocalize them.
We evolved to higher thinking abilities and reason things out, invent things find cures for illnesses, I have not seen any Chimps do that.

Answer 7

Well, not all humans have a higher IQ... Take some of the trolls here at Y!A for a case in point.

Answer 8

um, sorta a cousin of a chimpanzee, but the brain is genetically predisposed to be bigger, we could take our brain and put it in a chimpanzee i dont think we'd function that well, no vocal cords maybe, different vocal cords,

i agree overall but that 3% that we picked up about 2 million years ago, makes a difference that leads to the potential of higher iq

Answer 9

thats a good question, i would go to some info sites and do some studying but i hope your wrong because i dont want to have allmost the same DNA as a chimpanzees, bye

Answer 10

That extra 3% is what makes the difference. What chimp have you seen that could speak and talk to you? Maybe your folks are apes but mine sure are not.