Which animals are the closest relatives to humans?
gorillas
chimpanzees
orangutans
gibbons
Chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor about four to six million years ago. The genetic similarity is so high, that the two species of chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus, have been proposed to belong with H. sapiens in the genus Homo, rather than in Pan.
reach: rather globalanimalsapesgeneticsmammalsnaturezoology
Answers by country
gorillas
chimpanzees
orangutans
gibbons
answers
Sweden35
France25
the Netherlands38
Republic of Ireland32
Australia76
Germany686
Austria105
the United Kingdom291
the United States729
Poland18622
India404
Greece30
Belarus67
Pakistan59
Russia294
Canada57
Kazakhstan50
Ukraine612
Switzerland80
the Philippines55