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ANCESTOR ARE BUNCHED
TOGETHER UNDER THE HEADING 'genus' (plural genera)?
Thus lions, tigers, leopards & Jaguars are different species within the genus PANTHERA!
Biologists label organisms with a two-part Latin name, genus followed by species. Lions, for example,
are called PANTHERA LEO, the species LEO of the genus PANTHERA. Presumably, everyone reading these sentences
& special words is a HOMO SAPIENS ~ the species sapiens (wise) of the genus homo (man)?! Genera in their turn are
grouped into families, such as the cats {lions, cheetahs, house cats}, the dogs (wolves, foxes, jackals) & the elephants
[elephants, mammoths, mastodons]! All members of a family trace their lineage back to a founding matriarch or patriarch.
All cats, for example, from the smallest house kitten to the most ferocious lion, share a common feline ancestor who lived
about 25 million years ago. HOMO SAPIENS, too, belongs to a family. This banal fact used to be one of history's most
closely guarded secrets! Homo SAPIENS long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of
family, lacking siblings or cousins, and, most importantly, without parents? But that's just not the case...
Like it or not, we are members of a large ànd particularly noisy family called the great apes! Óur clósest lìving
relatives include chimps aka chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans! The chimpanzees are the closest
(especially as bonobos)?! Just about 6 million years ago,
a single female ape hàd two daughters. One became
the ancestor of all chimpanzees,
the other is our own
grandmother.

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