apes
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This means our species parted ways with the other great apes, and evolved for kids to be raised not by one or even two parents, but by parents plus helpers.
From Slate • May 10, 2026
Attenborough wanted to explain how the development of thumbs and fingers allowed apes to grip tools.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
The Rwanda trip, Mr. Attenborough says, wasn’t supposed to be about gorillas at all, but rather the opposable thumb, one of the significant characteristics we share with the great apes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
These early apes later spread into Eurasia between about 14 and 16 million years ago during the Miocene.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
All the outside portion of the monkey house was closed, so we went inside, and it was obvious that even in the winter those apes desperately need deodorant pads.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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