0 Question: what is the closest mammal that humans are related to? Keywords: evolution, mammals, people Asked by fluffyleopards to Nick on 12 Mar 2014.
Nick Goldman answered on 12 Mar 2014:
Our nearest relatives are chimpanzees, and the second closest are gorillas. The “family tree” that scientists have worked out show that humans and chimps last shared an ancestor about 5–6 million years ago.
Here’s a little picture: you need to know that Homo means human, Pan = chimp, Pongo = orang utan: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Hominoid_taxonomy_7.svg
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