The bonobo? It is more like humans than chimpanzees

For some particular genes, man is more similar to the bonobo than the latter is to the chimpanzee, although in the evolutionary scale the latter two are to be considered “brothers” and we only “cousins”. A discovery that has been achieved thanks to a very important work, financed thanks to the Futuro e Ricerca funds of the Miur, in which many international researchers led by Professor’s team took part. Mario Ventura of the Department of Biology of the University of Bari and of Evan E.