Question

With which group of animals do humans share their immediate ancestors

Answer 1

Answer:

Apes are the immediate ancestors of humans

Answer 2

Answer:

• Humans share their immediate ancestors with the animals belonging to the Great Apes family like the chimpanzees and bonobos.
• This is because humans and the Great Apes belong to the same taxonomical order of Primates and family of Hominadae.
• Numerous researches have proved that humans are much closer with the chimpanzees both genetically and anatomically.
• It has proved that humans share a higher percentage of their genes with the apes and hence they are the closest living relatives in the animal kingdom.
• Volutionary studies have also proved that both humans and chimpanzees have had common ancestors millions of years ago.
• It is due to the various evolutionary adaptations that the humans have taken a different form from their original form.