Who do you think humans are more closely related to?

Question

Bonobos:
laid back.
more sexually driven.
Alpha male and Alpha females in troop.
very peaceful.

or


Chimpanzees:
Alpha male in troop, no alpha female.
somewhat obnoxious.
Males dominate the all the females in the troop.
Only species other than humans to travel significant distances to perform a lethal raids and kidnapping.

What do you think?

sorry for the typos

Answer 1

Other ways bonobos are more human-like is that they have longer legs relative to their arms than chimps do and they do not have the strong upper body like chimps.

However, I think someday it is going to be found that the ancestor to all 3 was more human-like than either chimp-like or bonobo-like. It seems this must be so since chimps and bonobos have disimilar traits that are nonetheless humanlike.

Good question, by the way! I have thought quite a bit about this.

Answer 2

I think the molecular data indicates that we are more closely related to bonobos. But I also think that bonobos and chimps can interbreed which means that they are not really different species but rather just different breeds.

Answer 3

I think bonobos and chimpanzees split from each other long after the Pan line split from the Homo line. That'd make them equally distant.

Our recent warlike behavior derives more from agricultural civilization, than from our hunter-gatherer days.

Answer 4

The DNA of humans and chimps is 98.5% similar.
I think it would be about the same for humans and bonobos.

Answer 5

You know, a lot of the humans that are out there are more closely related to rats.

Answer 6

Behavior is the most plastic trait, and is nearly worthless for deciding relatedness.

Answer 7

Based on those descriptions? Chimpanzees.