Meet Aegyptopithecus,
earliest example of an anthropoid (early primates), and ancestor to later hominoids (as in us)
As far as Chimps go, they do use tools:
-they make fishing sticks (where they use a stick to catch termites and eat them)
-they use rocks to break open nuts
They also work cooperatively to hunt small animals, and they share the meat.
Oh and they have many different calls, body motions they use to communicate different emotional states.
Chimps are very simular to humans, their genes only differ by 1% compared to ours.
Also, Comparing DNA Chimps have shown to have diverged from humans by about 5 million years.
It goes like this,
We are part of the Hominoid group (comprised of Orangutans, Gorilla, Chimp, Bonobo, and Human)
And the Hominoid group as a whole is an off-shoot of the Old world monkeys which started happening around 7 million years ago. Anyway, there are too many examples to list, but you get the idea
[ 01-23-2003, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: esquire ]