Maybe you're wondering, So, you see this ape feature, human feature, ape feature.

That's why they were called ape hangers.

We have a much larger brain than our ape ancestors.

And essentially we are just an upright walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.

I think it would be something out of the aquatic ape thing, wouldn't it?

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens.

As we evolved from our ape like ancestors on the African savanna, what distinguished us was our larger brains.

It had a swooping banana seat and those ape hanger handlebars that made the rider look like an orangutan.

But as far as we know, we're the only upright walking ape that exists on planet Earth today, except for the bonobos.

The vocal chords will be eliminated by a process of evolution as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

It gives a thorough background on great ape behaviour and ecology, including detailed habitat requirements, their ecological role, and the possible consequences of their decline.

Her talk about the aquatic ape, and the link, of course, the link between Darwinism and the fact that we are all naked beneath this we're not hirsute and we can swim rather well.

All I can tell you is that in my congressional office in Colorado and my office in Washington, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea and her theory on why mainstream science doesn't take it seriously.

In other words, this apparent fact of nature the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape is a fact constructed from culture. That is not to say it is inaccurate or false just that its meaning is far less obvious than it may appear superficially.

In other words, this apparent fact of nature the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape is a fact constructed from culture. That is not to say it is inaccurate or false just that its meaning is far less obvious than it may appear superficially. nbsp

I doubt many of you in the audience can see the fossil that's in this picture, but if you look very carefully, there is a jaw, a lower jaw, of a 4.1 million year old upright walking ape as it was found at Lake Turkana on the west side.

He argued and it's now a fairly common theory that if we found behavior patterns similar or the same in our closest living relatives, the great apes, and humans today, then maybe those behaviors were present in the ape like, human like ancestor some seven million years ago.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ. If anything, the DNA comparison underestimates the profound similarity of the human and ape bodies in the great tapestry of nature.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.

For it is given in certain UFO ology or UFOlogy circles, that the aliens are already here and have been for millennia that they have walked among us in disguise, observing us, guiding our evolution from ape to man if you believe in that sort of thing and, occasionally, kidnapping us in their flying saucers and taking us away to have sex with us in pyramids.

In 1993, Paola Cavalieri and I founded The Great Ape Project, an organization dedicated to the idea of recognizing that great apes have a moral status befitting their nature as self aware beings who are capable of thought and have rich and deep emotional lives. At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.