Another study on the similarity of critical DNA sites in human and chimpanzee genes suggests that 99.4 percent are identical.
As their DNA is more than 98% identical to that of Homo sapiens, they are more closely related to Humans than Gorillas. The scientific name for the Bonobo is Pan paniscus. A more likely explanation is that it comes from the word for ancestor in an ancient Bantu language. One theory about the origin of the name "Bonobo" is that it is a misspelling of the name of the town of Bolobo on the Congo river. The species is distinguished by an upright gait, a matriarchal and egalitarian culture, and the prominent role of sexual activity in their society. The Bonobo was discovered in 1928, by American anatomist Harold Coolidge, represented by a skull in the Tervuren museum in Belgium that was thought to have belonged to a juvenile chimpanzee, though credit for the discovery went to the German Ernst Schwarz, who published the findings in 1929. To avoid confusion, this article follows the growing trend to use "chimpanzee" to refer to both members of the genus.
Both species are chimpanzees, although that term is now frequently used to refer only to the larger of the two species, Pan troglodytes. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the Common Chimpanzee. The Bonobo ( Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan.
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