But unfortunately, bonobos are the least understood of the great apes.

For millions of years these apes thrived in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

The apes...

The apes!

And we share our origins with a handful of the living great apes.

Apes are intelligent.

Planet of the Apes.

So some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how, you know, female apes bow down to male apes and that sort of thing.

Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.

Our ancestors were short, hairy apes.

But the point is we're not apes.

Bands of apes ventured into the open.

Well, you know man evolved from apes?

Stop with the apes, would you please?

Knowing, that's what distinguishes us from the apes.

We participate in the Apps for Apes program

Why have the apes evolved more than other animals?

Why do men behave like apes, and vice versa?

I haven't told you that these apes have language.

We used to think this was a uniquely human ability, but we learned that the great apes, our closest relatives, also show this ability.

Now we started talking with TED about how you bring dolphins and great apes and elephants to TED, and we realized that wouldn't work.

The primates include not only the apes, but also man.

Aegyptopithecus marked a divergence of old world monkeys, and apes.

Apes! Do you mean disrespect to the tribe of Moro?

And it is important to remember that all of these great apes have come on as long and as interesting evolutionary journey as we ourselves have today.

And it is quite clear that apes originated on the African continent.

Why would the tribe of the apes want to eat a man?

Yeah, she was your great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother or something.

We still have body hair, but we don't look like apes any more.

Great, great, yeah totally great.

Great friend, great spouse, great parent, great career.

And if you can do it with monkeys though the great leap in trying to genetically manipulate is actually between monkeys and apes if they can do it in monkeys, they can probably figure out how to do it in apes, which means they can do it in human beings.

What planet have I landed on? It's like the damn planet of the apes.

Apes also live on trees and have earth worms for breakfast but we don't.

Very few animals, I think elephants and apes, can do that kind of thing.

And the first murder of a mother by a son was my great great great great great great grandfather.

Tom's great great great grandmother lived in Scotland.

Tom's great great great grandmother lived in Scotland.

When they crossed the limit of the prohibition, We made them turn into detested apes.

And until 30,000 years ago, at least three upright walking apes shared the planet Earth.

If you're looking at an iron bar, the great, great, great, great, great, great majority of it is free space.

This means that your great, great, great great, great, great with about five million greats in there grandmother was probably the same great, great, great, great grandmother with five million greats in there as Holly up here.

Great friend, great spouse, great parent, great career. Is that not a package?

That's great, Ma. That's great.

Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, Be despicable apes.