Great
apes include gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans.
While chimpanzees are the smallest, humans are the weakest. Chimps are
much stronger than humans, even accounting for physical condition,
meaning they are stronger than our top athletes.
Pound-for-pound,
chimpanzees are 1.5 times stronger than humans at pulling and jumping
tasks, according to new research published today in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. This strength is not the result of the
chimpanzee’s physical form, its range of motion, or a newly-discovered
dedication to bench presses and deadlifts, but instead, the product of
how the fibers in chimp muscles are distributed. Because chimpanzees are
our closest-living primate relative, these findings are offering new
insights into human evolution—and why’re we’re such weaklings.
See, the human world never really had a chance against
Caesar and his followers.
Read more about this research at Gizmodo.
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