Humans vs. four great apes (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Humans vs. four great apes

Caption

The crosses on these graphs represent the great apes (violet = P. troglodytes, blue = P. paniscus, orange = Pongo, black = Gorilla), while the light blue circles = H. sapiens, and red stars = fossil Homo (LB = Liang Bua, Ng = Ngandong, Sm = Sambungmacan). The further the point is from 0 on the vertical axis, the greater the distortion. On the right, the density curves show the distributions of the pooled great ape (dotted line) and modern human (solid line). 

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Kaifu Y et al. 2026 CC BY

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