DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses

For all paper sources and an overview of the math, see this link here: docs.google.com/document/d/1gZWCMW7ZWhdlLPVJU4nDWk…

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Apes also can’t make vitamin C because of a common mutation we both share at the exact location on one of our chromosomes. It’s pretty much impossible for this exact mutation to match. The reason why this negative mutation survived was for the fact that our ancestors ate mostly fruit so the ability to make it without ingesting it wasn’t Detrimental. Most people have no idea that other mammals can make vitamin C without actually ingesting it.

I am so glad my friend suggested this video. I finally understood the concepts. This was very clear. Thanks.

This comment section makes me feel so smart: idiots talking about Jesus, the Bible, martians, fishes, sex with apes, HIV, sex with yo mama, Asians descending from dogs and Jews from cats... I'm having the time of my life reading comments from 5th grade dropouts, LOL. Great video man, keep it up.

The fact that there are so many people that watched this video not to learn from it but to disprove it with such nonsense claims is actually frightening

Oh trust me after seeing pictures of my mother's side of the family, I have no doubt that I have chimpanzees on the family.

Can we get an Arabic version of this video that would be added to the 'Stated clearly in Arabic' playlist? This was great!

There are so many evidences of evolution that I can't even imagine how one can be a creationist

Thanks for including the credits, I'd like to extend my thanks to the illustrator and animator for this video - really high quality work. Would also like to thank the script writer and the voice over guy.

I hope that you do similar videos about all methods to reveal family relationships using the DNA evidence. This was absolutely the best educational video about markers caused by Endogenous Retroviruses and I'd love to see other videos with similar quality for other methods, too.

This channel is unbelievably clear and educational.

Why did i think he was going to say “we. are. monkey.” At the end xD

I’ve always been a firm believer in evolution, but this has truly made my jaw drop. Especially hearing the probabilities, it truly seems undeniable. Fantastic work!

if we lost every fossil, lost documentation for every observed case of speciation, and ignored all the structural homologies between species, ERVs alone would still prove evolution beyond any shadow of a doubt

I have been watching Evolution debates for years. I have never seen the DNA evidence presented so clearly. thank you👍

Colt, thank you!! this was so beautifully & expertly produced 😊 (also thanks for the awesome links!)

Thank you, this was so simple and clearly presented with beautiful graphics!

I’m speechless by how well this review is done, and I was even kind of moved by the facts and this great work.

SOME PEOPLE STILL ASK, "WHY ARE THERE STILL APES (OR MONKEYS)?" It should be obvious that such people lack an understanding of what evolution is and how it works. Apparently someone told such people that humans evolved from apes, and from that, due to their lack of education, they assumed that all apes were supposed to evolve into humans. That is not how evolution works, but creationists have no interest in learning anything other than creation mythology. They might just as well have asked "If dogs are descended from wolves, why are there still wolves?" Or even "If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?" Just as dogs descended from a population of wolves, so too did humans evolve from one particular population of apes. What we know is that the first apes evolved in Africa about 25 million years ago from a population of Old World Monkeys. Whereas monkeys run on all four feet across the TOPS of branches, apes evolved the ability to swing, arm over arm, from branch to branch. Evolution works to make each species best suited to their environment. For apes, that environment was the forest and they are well suited for it. At one time there were about 30 different species of apes in those forests. Had environmental conditions remained the same, we would still see forests covering the whole African continent. However, conditions did not stay the same; the climate became drier. As a result, forested areas shrank in size and were replaced by grasslands, the African savanna, with just a few scattered trees. The shrinking forests put different ape species in competition with each other and many went extinct. Then, about 6 or 7 million years ago, one population of apes split, with some of them opting for life on that open savanna. All apes are capable of walking upright, they are just not comfortable doing so for long periods of time. Recent experiments with trained chimps on a treadmill have shown that for them, walking upright was more efficient in terms of energy expended than quadrupedal walking. Chimps and other apes though must shift their weight from side to side while walking bipedaly. That savanna environment favored skeletal changes that placed the knees directly under the center of gravity. by about 4 mya, our ancestral australopithecines had almost the same pelvis, femur, knees and feet as modern humans. That gave them a smooth stride that was efficient for long distance travel. They did however, retain long arms and curved fingers enabling them to climb a tree when danger threatened. The apes that remained in a forest environment were under little pressure to change. They became the ancestors of today's chimps and bonobos. Those living in the open were presented challenges not experienced by woodland apes, and that required greater intelligence and cooperation to overcome them. It set their descendants on a different evolutionary trajectory that culminated in us.