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you'd break your hand punching a chimp's head. Their skulls are thick and heavy.
The reason head trauma is so dangerous to people is becuase we have relatively large, fragile brains encased in very thin protective casings. A chimp's skull is several times thicker than a man's. The chimp's skull is also wrapped in a least a centimeter of muscle all the way to the sagital crest, where the human skull is mostly "naked", i.e. free of muscular padding, only protected by skin and hair.