Were our ape ancestors very different compared to today's apes?

Anonymous

Yes

Anonymous

Which ones? Anything of the Australopithecus or Homo species, yeah.

Robin

of course the current apes are on a ifferebt branch from Lucy

Toruko

Yes. We know of about 15 that evolved before us. Bones of one from a grave they dug gave science an idea of their description and DNA. Latter can link my reader to Stone Age consensual or non-consensual mating habits. Human skin color and racial features have no bearing on proto-humanoids. Find a zoo you feel comfortable within if DNA determines reader is less than 100% human. Europeans and Neanderthals had mingled.

Tide

Depends. Our closest living relative chimlanzee diverged from us 4 million years ago. And all species leading to humans in this 4 million years are either evolved as humans or dead.