What if chimps were as smart as humans?

Chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and gorillas could access our computers and wield our guns while also enjoying the benefits of stronger and more agile bodies than the human form. They could also quickly set about creating unique technologies by coopting human tools for their own use.
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What is smarter a chimpanzee or a human?

Now a new study sheds light on why: Unlike chimps, humans undergo a massive explosion in white matter growth, or the connections between brain cells, in the first two years of life. Despite sharing 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, humans have much bigger brains and are, as a species, much more intelligent.
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How much more intelligent are humans than chimps?

It became a widely used shorthand for intelligence. As expected, humans led the pack with an EQ of 7.4 to 7.8, followed by other high achievers such as dolphins (about 5), chimpanzees (2.2 to 2.5), and squirrel monkeys (roughly 2.3).
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Will animals ever be as smart as humans?

No animal will develop human-like intelligence if its circumstances don't become similar to those that required our ancestors to develop bigger brains.
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Can a human overpower a chimp?

"Chimps are incredibly strong and fast so humans are easily overpowered." Indeed, chimpanzees have been shown to be about four times as strong as humans comparable in size, according to evolutionary biologist Alan Walker, formerly of Pennsylvania State University.
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Can a chimp rip your arm off?

To completely tear off a limb with ease like in 1 second and not slowly like most people who overrate chimps are saying, your actually gonna need over 3552 lbs of force, so can chimp generate that much force. Possibly a gorilla though.
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Why did humans get weaker?

Human Muscles Evolved Into Weakness, In Order to Boost Our Brains. Much like our brains, human muscles have evolved several times more rapidly than primate muscles, according to a new study — but that process has made us weaker over time in a process, while brains become more advanced.
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Are humans the weakest animal?

The votes are in and the winner of the weakest creature on the planet is……. HUMAN BEINGS!
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What will humans look like in 100000 years?

100,000 Years From Today

We will also have larger nostrils, to make breathing easier in new environments that may not be on earth. Denser hair helps to prevent heat loss from their even larger heads. Our ability to control human biology means that the man and woman of the future will have perfectly symmetrical faces.
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What species will dominate after humans?

They have colonised the entire planet, from the stratosphere to the deepest ocean, and despite all our technology, antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to kill hundreds of thousands of us every year. When humans are gone, other species may take our place, but bacteria will continue to dominate the planet.
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What is a dolphins IQ?

The La Plata dolphin has an EQ of approximately 1.67; the Ganges river dolphin of 1.55; the orca of 2.57; the bottlenose dolphin of 4.14; and the tucuxi dolphin of 4.56; In comparison to other animals, elephants have an EQ ranging from 1.13 to 2.36; chimpanzees of approximately 2.49; dogs of 1.17; cats of 1.00; and ...
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What monkey has the highest IQ?

Capuchin IQ

Capuchins are the most intelligent New World monkeys – perhaps as intelligent as chimpanzees. They are noted for their ability to fashion and use tools.
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Are dolphins smarter than chimps?

Research suggests dolphins are smarter than chimpanzees and second only to humans in terms of intelligence, said White and other dolphin advocates, including zoologist Lori Marino of Emory University in Atlanta.
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Are gorillas smarter than chimps?

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 26—Experiments with a captive gorilla here suggest that gorillas, long considered less intelligent than chimpanzees, may prove to be their intellectual rivals.
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How smart can a chimp get?

Chimpanzees are highly intelligent and are able to solve many kinds of problems posed to them by human trainers and experimenters. A number of researchers have taught chimpanzees to use sign language or languages based on the display of tokens or pictorial symbols.
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Can chimps Talk?

Monkeys and apes lack the neural control over their vocal tract muscles to properly configure them for speech, Fitch concludes. "If a human brain were in control, they could talk," he says, though it remains a bit of a mystery why other animals can produce at least rudimentary speech.
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What year will humans go extinct?

But the general consensus is that it'll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now.
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What will Earth be like in 1 billion years?

In about one billion years, the solar luminosity will be 10% higher, causing the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics and the entire carbon cycle will end.
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Did humans exist 1 million years ago?

The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent. There's a lot anthropologists still don't know about how different groups of humans interacted and mated with each other over this long stretch of prehistory.
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What is the stupidest animal?

List of the Dumbest Animals in the World
  • Panda Bear.
  • Turkey.
  • Jerboa.
  • Goblin Shark.
  • Sloth.
  • Koala.
  • Kakapo.
  • Cane Toads.
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What is the ugliest animal in the world?

Top Ten Ugliest Animals
  • The blobfish was elected the ugliest animal in the world in an online poll that we ran. ...
  • The giant Chinese salamander is the world's largest amphibian and it can breathe through its skin!
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What is the strongest animal in a fight?

It was originally published on January 1, 2018. In a battle royale for Most Powerful Animal, a red kangaroo might take the martial-arts belt, thanks to a bone-shattering kick that delivers 759 pounds of force. Evolution has nudged wild creatures to hone their blows, bites, and brute strength for survival.
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Are we evolving or devolving?

From a biological perspective, there is no such thing as devolution. All changes in the gene frequencies of populations--and quite often in the traits those genes influence--are by definition evolutionary changes.
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Were humans meant to be muscular?

Muscular evolution in humans is an overview of the muscular adaptations made by humans from their early ancestors to the modern man. Humans are believed to be predisposed to develop muscle density as early humans depended on muscle structures to hunt and survive.
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Do any animals have war?

The Gombe Chimpanzee War was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania between 1974 and 1978. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community. By 1974, researcher Jane Goodall noticed the community splintering.
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