Why Humans Did Not Evolve From Primates [AUDIOCAST]

Researched and Written by Neil Pontecorvo [RestrictedKnowledge.com]The 1% Chimpanzee Myth is Dead: 5 Mind-Bending Reasons Humans Are Not Primates We have all stood before a zoo enclosure, looked into the eyes of a chimpanzee, and felt a profound sense of recognition. For decades, this visceral feeling was reinforced by the ubiquitous scientific claim that humans and chimps share roughly 99 percent of their DNA. However, this deeply entrenched narrative is rapidly collapsing under the weight of new genomic and cognitive research. Far from being just "souped-up" apes on a continuous evolutionary sliding scale, evidence suggests a sheer functional cliff separates human and nonhuman minds. Here are five of the most surprising, counter-intuitive takeaways from recent scientific literature demonstrating why the narrative that humans are primates is fundamentally flawed.