This is a young chimp. The young ones are better than the old ones, just like humans.

You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is Human vs. Chimps the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps.

And yet, when you look at the phenotypes, there's a chimp, there's a man they're astoundingly different, no resemblance at all.

To put that into perspective, this red vertical bar here marks the divergence time of humans from chimpanzees, a mere seven million years ago.

The NIH will retain only one colony, comprising roughly 50 chimps, and any research carried out on these apes will have to be approved by an independent committee that will include public representation.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.

From there, it is not uncommon to hear the conclusion that we are nothing but chimpanzees (and fated to be aggressive, or to possess whatever attributes are being imputed to apes these days), or that apes merit human rights.