• Question: how do you think apes behaivour effects human beings behaviour?

    Asked by to Lewis on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lewis Dean answered on 19 Mar 2014:


      Well, we are closely related to other ape species (chimps, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons), so there are many things that we share. For example, there are some big similarities in the way we copy others.

      However, there are also some things that we do very differently. Humans have evolved to have a huge brain and depend on working together a lot. We have an amazing way of working out what other people want and using it to help them (or hinder them sometimes!)

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