Originally Posted by Txjake

then why did modern apes evolve as such? why dont they speak and have a higher social order like their cousins? I am aware of the fossil records, I am also aware that there are gaps in said record.

not mocking anybody, just want to know why. maybe I need an evolution forum, but I dont want to blindly accept the homo sapiens theory as "religion" without some answers. Maybe the answers are not there yet.

I still want to know why dogs cant talk to their humans in a mutually understandable dialect. we have been together for millennia....