Are humans the third species of Chimpanzee?

I was reading the; The Third Chimpanzee - the rise and fall of the human race.


The book said that there was 3 species of Chimpanzees. The Common Chimpanzee, the Bonobo and humans.


Is this true.|||The third chimpanzee,seems like a title slanted to selling books. Read the Naked Ape by Desmond Morris and African Genesis by Robert Ardrey. If you have an interest in our connection to chimps and apes.Calling us the third Chimp,seems like grandstanding sensationalism to sell a book.|||No, thats not a proper way of describing our evolutionary relationship. Chimps and bonobos are our closest non-extinct relatives. "Chimpanzee" refers to one species, so to say we are a "species of chimpanzee" is jibberish.





Im not familiar with that book. For a better explanation, read "Our Inner Ape" by Frans de Waal.|||Common Chimps and Bonobos are 2 species of chimpanzee. The author, Jared Diamond, is being somewhat rhetorical when he describes us as a "third species of chimp". His point is that we are very similar. It would not be factual to say humans are a third species of chimp.|||no we branched off before "chimps" evolved into what they are today|||No, not really. Although Humans are rather closely related to Chimpanzees, they are still distinct from each other, and are separated by the days of filthy, poop-throwing Apes.