Gorilla

7mya Gorillas

Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after chimpanzees and bonobos.

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  1. Ancestor's Trail Hike
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  2. Why Is Life On Earth Carbon-Based?
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  3. Metazoans
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  4. 900MYA we had a common ancestry with Choanoflagellates (non-animal eucaryotes)
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  5. 800mya we had a common ancestry with Sponges
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  6. 780mya we had a common ancestry with Placozoans
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  7. 730mya Ctenophores
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  8. 680mya Cnidarians
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  9. 630mya Flatworms
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  10. 590mya Protosomes
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  11. 570mya Ambulacrarians
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  12. 565mya Tunicates
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  13. 560mya Cephalocordates
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  14. 530mya Agnatha
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  15. 460mya Chondrichthyes
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  16. 440-450mya FIRST GREAT EXTINCTION
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  17. 440mya Actinopterygii
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  18. 417mya Dipnoi
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  19. 360-375mya SECOND GREAT EXTINCTION
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  20. 340mya Amphibians
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  21. 310mya Sauropsids (lizard-faced non-mammalian chordates)
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  22. 251mya THIRD GREAT EXTINCTION
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  23. 205mya FOURTH GREAT EXTINCTION
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  24. 180mya Monotremes
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  25. 140mya Marsupials
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  26. 105mya Afrotheres
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  27. 95mya Xenarthrans
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  28. 85mya Laurasiatheres
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  29. 75mya Glires (Rodents and Lagomorphs)
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  30. 70mya Non-primate Eurachonta (Cologus and Tree shrews)
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  31. 65mya FIFTH GREAT EXTINCTION
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  32. 63mya Prosimians
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  33. 58mya Tarsiers
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  34. 40mya Platyrrhini
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  35. 25mya Catarrhini
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  36. 18mya Lesser Apes
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  37. 14mya Orangutans
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  38. 7mya Gorillas
  39. 6mya Chimpanzees and Bonobos
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  40. Human Evolution on the Ancestor's Trail
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  41. 7 BILLION HUMANS
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