Chimpanzees are great apes found across central and West Africa. Along with bonobos, they are our closest living relatives, sharing 98.7 percent of our genetic blueprint. Humans and chimps are also thought to share a common ancestor who lived some seven to 13 million years ago.
Do human monkeys exist?
Humans and monkeys are both primates. But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. ... But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor.
How do chimps still exist?
Our main point: Chimps are still around today because humans did not evolve from living chimps1 – both humans and chimps evolved from a now extinct common ancestor.
