Primates are often sited for possessing many of the same traits and qualities found in modern man.  While many dispute our own evolution from the ape, just as many cannot deny the close similarities that can be found between each species.

     Information presented in the following pages will be cited from various sources and referenced accordingly, but sometimes intermixed with personal thought, speculation and opinion.  At no time did I personally conduct this research, it is cited here as a central location for information, not as a collaborative work between me and the individuals referenced.  This is a work in progress and will hopefully expand and lengthen as I continue.  At various points in this work I will be contacting references cited for their approval and thus, information my change.

     In my views, I follow the belief that the Human, Orangutan, Chimpanzee and Gorilla belong to the same Family, Hominidae.  Therefore, when I am making reference to the Family, Hominidae, I speak of it as the family of all four Primates listed above.  Reference material may site them as two distinct groups, please do not confuse this listing as contradictory to my views, I will cite information as found without modification.

     My beliefs stem from a trust in the Theory of Evolution.  I do not blindly believe this theory to be the absolute truth, but I do feel confident in my opinion, that I , as a human, am the descendant of an ape or an earlier species thereof.