Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests

The Red Ape Returns is a decent blog discussion of this.Here's the skinny: Schwartz essentially discards all of the molecular data and simply looks at morphology. This is, frankly, both unjustified and bad science. Molecular data is less certain than perhaps it is sometimes presented, molecular clocks in particular have large uncertainties associated, but to disregard them entirely is baby-with-bathwater nonsense.