Dr Frans de Waal Unboxing | What Apes Teach Us About Gender & Human Behaviour
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Why Did We Split From the Chimpanzees?
We're as close to chimpanzees as the two elephant species are to each other, basically. We thought we were close to the apes, but not so close. But then the DNA said we are actually extremely similar. And that's exactly what we split from the chimpanzees. Those two days split about 7 million years ago.
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