What was the last common ancestor of humans and gorillas?

Humans and gorillas last shared a common ancestor 10 million years ago, according to an analysis of the first full sequence of the gorilla genome. The gorilla is the last of the living great apes – humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – to have its complete genetic sequence catalogued. read more

Its separation into Gorillini and Hominini (the "gorilla-human last common ancestor, GHLCA) is estimated to have occurred at about (T GHLCA) during the late Miocene, close to the age of Nakalipithecus nakayamai. read more

Scientists carefully study fossils to determine what the last common ancestor of humans and African apes looked like. This image shows Paranthropus boisei, a hominid that lived in sub-Saharan Africa between 2 and 1.4 million years ago. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev. read more

The chimpanzee–human last common ancestor, or CHLCA, is the last common ancestor shared by the extant Homo and Pan genera of Hominini. Due to complex hybrid speciation, it is not possible to give a precise estimate on the age of this ancestral individual. read more