Ape skeletons – public domain image in Wikipedia “Human Evolution”

(6) HUNTING APE

Well, this one’s obvious, consistent with the hunting hypothesis – “that human evolution was primarily influenced by the activity of hunting for relatively large and fast animals, and that the activity of hunting distinguished human ancestors from other hominins”.

(7) GATHERING APE

The counterpoint to the hunting hypothesis – “that gathering rather than hunting was the main factor in the emergence of anatomically modern humans”.

(8) COOKING APE

As I opine elsewhere, much of the Stone Age might be better termed the Fire Age, for the control of fire by early humans. Among the uses of this was for cooking food, leading to the cooking hypothesis, which “proposes that the ability to cook allowed for the brain size of hominids to increase over time”.

(9) BRAINY APE (EXPENSIVE TISSUE)

Another one that’s obvious – most theories of human evolution focus on the brain and brain size, including the expensive tissue hypothesis or ETH that “relates brain and gut size in evolution (specifically in human evolution)”.

Essentially, to evolve its large brain, humans had to sacrifice “less energy on other expensive tissues” – which was “achieved by eating an easy-to-digest diet and evolving a smaller, less energy-intensive gut”.

Again in tabletop terms, humans were minmax players, minimizing their gut stats to max out their brain stats (minimizing their constitution to max out intelligence?)

(10)  ANDROGYNOUS APE (REDUCED S€XUAL DIMORPHISM)

Well, not really androgynous – humans still have pronounced sexual dimorphism but it is decreased and I wanted a catchy ape title for it.