The other answers come from people clearly that don’t understand physics. Bonobos are more closely related to humans than chimps, study that could rewrite our family tree finds. This line about sums it up: “Bonobo muscles have changed least, which means they are the closest we can get to having a ‘living’ ancestor,” says Bernard Wood, professor of human origins at the GW Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, in a university news release. A new study finds that bonobos may be more closely linked to humans than chimpanzees, at least when it comes to anatomy. In terms of pound for pound strength a bonobo is stronger but humans are much bigger and therefore stronger. I’ve said before that the average man can bench 135 lbs and squat 125 lbs, and I’m much stronger than that, and you can’t prove otherwise.


Are bonobos strong? Yes, despite their size. In a new study, researchers compared the muscles of chimps, humans, bonobos Chimps are far stronger than we are. No, bonobos are not stronger than humans.

It doesn’t go well for humans.

In fact, the unfortunate student probably would have been better off had he been attacked by two humans.

Fortunately/oddly, this paper’s entire focus is comparing bonobo and human strength. It comes down to strength. They are stronger as is, and if they were enlarged to a human’s size, they could easily rip an ATM out of the wall.