What links us to our closest living relatives @NewScientist
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Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and we share a lot of physiology with them, says biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts. For example, a female chimpanzees humerus is about the same size and shape as a human's, fingernails is a is a primate thing, they all have opposable thumbs and the more you look, the more similarities you start to see.

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