Question: what type of ape has the biggest brain?

Anna Westland answered on 3 Mar 2021:

At the moment – us! Humans have much bigger brains than any other living ape. The important thing is how big our brain is compared to our body – our brains are much larger than we would expect for our body size.

But we don’t have the biggest brain of any ape ever. Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals had slightly bigger brains than humans. Which is funny because lots of people think of them as stupid cavemen! They totally weren’t – they behaved in basically the same way as humans did back then.