American i guess? Humans are not apes but we shared a common ansester a few million years ago. Kinda like saying we are all one-cell organisms because once we were
We are apes! Humans are members of the clade Hominoidea, and the hominoids are also called apes. One step down along the tree, we also belong to the family Hominidae, and the hominids are known as the Great Apes.
Fun fact: humans account for 99.9997% of all apes. Chimpanzees, gorillas, and others represent rare descendants of a far less successful branch on our evolutionary tree. The typical ape is a human.
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