98 Percent Chimpanzee

Music and lyrics © 2013, Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick

1.

Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee
The other two percent that holds the key
That makes you you, and makes me me
We’re ninety-eight percent chimpanzee

2.

Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee
A big divergence in the family tree
Knuckle walking/bipedality
Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee

(BRIDGE)

Last common ancestor
Eight million years before us
Arboreal ape in a tropical land,
Last common ancestor
In Africa’s primal forest
One branch leads to Homo the other to Pan

3. 

Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee
Three times the cranial capacity
That lets us live symbolically
Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee

4.

Ninety-eight percent chimpanzee
The other two percent that holds the key
That makes you you, and makes me me
We’re ninety-eight percent chimpanzee

Kanzi, a bonobo chimpanzee

Vocals:
Carrie Newcomer
and Wild African Chimpanzees

Guitar, Bass, Hammond Organ:
Nicholas Toth

Drums & percussion:
Tom Schoenemann

Percussion:
Kathy Schick

Engineer: Kevin Loyal
Recorded at Echo Park Studios, 
Bloomington, Indiana

Recording © 2013, The Stone Age Institute®.

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