![]() ![]() Compared with most other animals, chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent: They work with tools, communicate with complex vocalizations, and are good problem-solvers. The experiment essentially confirmed that our weak muscles are a result of genetics, rather than the way we lead our lives today. Why chimpanzees are smarter than humans New study suggests human brains are strongly shaped by external influences. But the change hardly altered the metabolome in their muscles. A study suggests the difference is mostly due to a higher proportion in chimps of a muscle fibre type involved in powerful, rapid movements. A group of macaque monkeys were transported from sprawling outdoor facilities into smaller indoor ones and fed foods rich in fat and sugar, like most humans eat. By Paul Rincon (Science Editor BBC News) The greater strength of chimpanzees, relative to humans, may have been explained by American scientists. Indeed, chimpanzees have been shown to be about four times as strong as humans comparable in size, according to evolutionary biologist Alan Walker, formerly of Pennsylvania State University. Nevertheless, the 1.35 times more powerful strength was according to a study by Matthew O’Neill, an assistant professor at the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine in Phoenix. To check the theory, the scientists subjected some monkeys to a sedentary adult lifestyle - i.e., turned them into couch potatoes to see how their muscles fare. The strength of Chimpanzees was once placed way above that on humans. This result matches well with the few tests that have been done, which suggest that when it comes to pulling and jumping, chimps are about 1.5 times as strong as humans relative to their body mass. From these two articles it seems that the requirements for a man to beat a chimp are to be fifty pounds heavier (so 150 to two hundred pounds) much stronger than the average man (but not unattainability so) and well versed in combat sports, particularly one that includes chokes. The startling realization prompted the scientists to test what has, until this point, been simply observed and reported anecdotally: that the weakest apes are still stronger than the strongest humans. Is a chimp stronger than a human Chimpanzees do have stronger muscles than us but they are not nearly as powerful as many people think. What was more surprising, however, is that human muscle accumulated an even higher amount of metabolic change - ten times that of the chimpanzee! 'Even if we worked out for 12 hours a day like they do. The metabolome of the human brain has evolved four times faster than that of the chimpanzee. The two species' musculature is extremely similar, but somehow, pound-for-pound, chimps are between two and three times stronger than humans. ![]()
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