Chimps

The question of if humans came from chimps why are there still chimps is a very complex question that honestly has me very puzzled. In the article “Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology” edited by Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff one of the first things that they do is define the term hominin. I like the way that they describe it as if, “an imaginary line were drawn between ourselves and our closest relatives, the great apes, bipedalism is where that line would be. Hominin, then, means everyone on ‘our’ side of the line: humans and all of our extinct bipedal ancestors and relatives since our divergence from the last common ancestor with chimpanzees” (Shook, Nelson, Aguilera, Braff 2). This gives background information on where we stand compared to chimps and other great apes. The evolution of the brain, bipedalism, and diet changes are some of the most important traits that humans obtained unlike chimps who had smaller brains and larger dentition, similar to our early relatives. Thinking about brain size, the increase in brain size does not always correlate to intelligence in every animal because the size of the animal needs to be taken into consideration as well.