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Sure, chimpanzee-like. But like common chimpanzees, or like bonobos? The fact that bonobos split fairly recently, following habitat isolation, implies that the
by mirimir 8y ago
Sure, chimpanzee-like. But like common chimpanzees, or like bonobos?
The fact that bonobos split fairly recently, following habitat isolation, implies that the common ancestor was more like common chimpanzees. And that, as TFA argues, self-domestication occurred independently in the human and bonobo lines.
But I'm not aware of any paleontological support for that. And I can't quite imagine what such evidence would look like.
- ncmncm 8y agoThe enormously broader range of the common chimpanzee (until recently) argues for its more basal character. New evidence could overturn that, but I won't be holding my breath waiting on it.