Meet the Monkey Cousins

Those primates were not just the ancestors of ourselves, but of all the other apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons—along with the monkeys of the Eastern Hemisphere, such as baboons and langurs. By comparing ourselves to these other primates, scientists can get clues to our evolution over the past 25 million years. Until now, most of those clues have come from fossils and studies on the behavior and physiology of apes and monkeys. But in the past few years scientists have begun to pore over a new record: the one that is inscribed in our genome and the genomes of other apes and monkeys.

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