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Position:Home>Genealogy> Humans that resemble Neanderthals/Apes?Question: Humans that resemble Neanderthals/Apes!? I mean real people you know, not neccessarily celebrities or something!.
My Dad, while being very attractive, has been told before he has neanderthal-type features!. Like, he has thick hair, and kinda deep-set eyes, and his eyebrow juts out, and he has a kinda big forehead!. Is this like, proof that we're evolved from apes!? Do you know anyone else who has features like this!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know a guy who looks like a monkey, and I once saw a guy in the street who looked like a caveman, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was proof, because I'm no scientist!. I believe in evolution, and that we all evolved from apes, but I wouldn't say resembling an ape indicates this!. It could just be a mish-mash of genes from his ancestors, all of which look "normal" until the genes are culminated together to make someone who looks more apelike!.Www@QuestionHome@Com After 6 or 7 million years of evolution !? Don't you think it's a tad too distant for your father's features to be directly attributable to our earliest ancestors !? it is more likely due to a much more recent genetic input ! Neandertal man was not an ape, and it is generally believed that he was also a separate species, and not a sub-species of Homo Sapiens who evolved out of Homo Erectus!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Neanderthal The closest living relatives of Homo sapiens are two chimpanzee species: the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo!. Full genome sequencing has resulted in the conclusion that "after 6!.5 [million] years of separate evolution, the differences between chimpanzee and human are just 10 times greater than those between two unrelated people and 10 times less than those between rats and mice"!. Suggested concurrence between human and chimpanzee DNA sequences range between 95% and 99% It has been estimated that the human lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees about five million years ago, and from that of gorillas about eight million years ago!. However, a hominid skull discovered in Chad in 2001, classified as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, is approximately seven million years old, which may indicate an earlier divergence!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/HumanWww@QuestionHome@Com |