From the Archives: Great apes provide a window into the story of human evolution—and that’s one more reason to protect them.
Great apes provide a window into the story of human evolution—and that’s one more reason to protect them.Except for humans, every great ape is endangered—many at great risk of going extinct. There are fewer than 300,000 chimpanzees living in the wild.a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the orangutan habitat.
There was a time not so long ago when planet Earth was filled with a variety of our close relations, from, which looked much less so. Each one carried a legacy: vital genetic, behavioral, biological, and geographic information about our shared origins. They were all strands in the interconnected web of humanity.genus left, but we don’t stand entirely alone. If we zoom out a little to look at our familyLooking at the numbers, there are approximately 7.67 billion people on the Earth today.
Great apes are special because they are the closest remaining threads on that web of humanity, and we can never recover the information they have to share about our origins once they are lost. Apes are uniquely impactful to the field of anthropology, where we researchers look to the past to understand our present. If the desire to preserve biodiversity isn’t enough to save the apes, then unlocking the human story should be a further impetus for their conservation.
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