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I just had a question in regards to evolution of other great apes. It's fairly easy for me to observe different human forms over the course of thousands of years, specifically 'transitional forms'. However, I have a hard time finding such transitional forms in other apes such as the gorillas and chimpanzees. Surely, the modern day gorilla is not exaclty the same as it was 100,000 years ago. Has there been much change since then in that particular species? If not, why? Perhaps I have some misunderstanding on how evolution actually works.

Help anyone?

I don't really have the time to search, but I'll be willing to bet you can find an answer at Talk Origins (http://www.talkorigins.org/).

They are the bee's knees when wanting to understand evolution.

Here's an easily digestible resource:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprimates/early_2.htm

Thanks Squid! I'll take a look later tonight.

Quote from: "Cite134"Thanks Squid! I'll take a look later tonight.

No problemo.  When you decide to tackle it, here's the Handbook of Paleoanthropology (http://www.mediafire.com/?zkzow4omvyd) in three volumes.  Volume 2 deals with the origins and evolution of primates.  It's a few years old (2007) so it won't have very latest research information but a good search in Scholar can help with that if you have the time.

Interesting links squid, I'll have a read later.