Neanderthals too!
It occurs to me that this whole human/animal dichotomy would be a lot less seemingly intuitively obvious if there were any other hominid species still around.
If we ever clone a homo erectus, people are going to freak out. ;)
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> The opossums who visit my front porch regularly have fully
> opposable
> thumbs on their hands and feet.
> Koalas, Chimps, Orangutans Gorillas, Gibbons (on their feet
> as well)
> Lemurs (most of them), and Tarsiers also have opposable
> thumbs.
> I'm probably forgetting others.
> Pandas don't really have a thumb, it's more of a partially
> opposable nub.
>
> John Thornton
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