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Our closest living relatives are chimpanzees and bonobos. But their genomes, besides being a proof of relatedness to us, also display anomalies, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "PLos Genetics." These weird DNA areas may explain one of the most mysterious intervals in our own evolution: 5.4 mill... |
18 April 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Chimps gave as the HIV virus, but now they could compensate with another one that may cure malaria. This virus triggers cold and stomach trouble in chimps, but it is harmless for humans. Trials made at the Oxford University found an antimalaria boost of the human immune system caused by this virus in 100% of the case... |
1 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Chimps are not quite gentle when eating. And besides being messy during the dinner time, they even engulf dirt while doing this. It may seem fulsome, but our closest living relatives are not stupid: eating soil appears to improve their health and their ability to fight infections. This is the result of a new research... |
14 January 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Some people cannot say how much it is two plus two, but chimps can! After having recently humiliated college students in tests of short term memory made by a Japanese team, chimps keep coming with surprises. A new research made at Duke University and published on the on-line journal PLoS Biology found that chimps had... |
18 December 2007
06:02 GMT |
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Do chimps have senile grandmas? A comprehensive research has attempted to see whether wild female chimpanzees experience menopause or not.After 35 years of age, women experience a drop in their fertility as the oocytes (undeveloped eggs) reserve empties, and at an average age of 51, when only about 1000 oocytes remai... |
14 December 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Yeah, right, humans are the smartest beings of the planet, and all the other animals are dumb. Including our closest relatives. But, a new research, published in "Current Biology", showed that young chimpanzees have an astonishing higher short-term memory capacity than human adults."There are still many people, inclu... |
4 December 2007
05:06 GMT |
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You cannot live without French fries and chips, can you? Well, it seems this has something to do with our remote ancestry. Anthropologist Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar of the University of Southern California has found for the first time proofs that chimps dig by using tools in order to eat tubers, roots, and bulbs, a fi... |
14 November 2007
03:06 GMT |
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The lack of fossils had forced scientists to make complicated hypotheses about how apes emerged in Africa 22 million years ago, migrated to Europe and Asia, disappeared from Africa, migrated back in Africa from Europe and from that lineage humans, chimps and gorillas appeared. But a new 10-million-year old jaw bone a... |
13 November 2007
05:27 GMT |
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We look at a chimp and we imagine this is how our ancestors looked like and walked. But many researches show that the common chimp-human ancestor was more human-like. And now it appears that this ancestor was bipedal (it walked on two feet), not being a knuckle dragger. The concept of the humans as "upright apes" is ... |
10 October 2007
04:29 GMT |
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We pride ourselves on our high intelligence and we say that this is the main trait that sets us apart from apes. But why are we more intelligent? A new research made by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on 106 juvenile and adult chimpanzees (living in sanctuaries in Uganda an... |
11 September 2007
05:58 GMT |
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A big gap in the human evolution is going to be filled. Recently found fossil teeth of a gorilla-like ape that lived about 10 million years ago are a first archaeological clue of when gorillas split off from the human-chimp lineage of apes.The finding was made in the Afar rift valley of Ethiopia, where most important... |
31 August 2007
04:09 GMT |
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1 %. This makes the DNA difference between you and a chimp. But I guess a chimp female is not a very hot image for a male human (actually... who knows!?). As for male chimps... at least are too short...Today, there are 5 species of apes: two species of orangutans, one of gorillas, and two of chimps (common and lesser... |
16 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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We tend to consider us some helpless creatures. We do have weak muscles and lack fangs when compared to the apes and monkeys. But many ignore one issue: our ability of walking on land surpasses that of any primate: we can sustain a steady 20 km (12 mi) /h over long distances (it is, of course, a genetic ability devel... |
31 July 2007
06:16 GMT |
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When humans stopped using their hands for walking, everything they did was better, from foraging to sex. But what a new research shows is that they did it because walking on two feet is less exhausting than "knuckle-walking" on all four, like chimps and gorillas do. Humans walking on two legs waste just a quarter of ... |
17 July 2007
06:49 GMT |
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There has been a vivid debate on whether we humanize the animals too much or not, by associating certain "typically human feelings" with them. But scientific experiments revealed that animals too, and apes even more, experience sophisticated emotions, from joy to sadness, and communicate employing language. Still one... |
17 July 2007
06:12 GMT |
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This looks like another Congolese myth: huge jungle apes that kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. The legends speak about a legendary creature, a type of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.But how to investigate this in the middle of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the D... |
16 July 2007
03:48 GMT |
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You think that only Westerners can steal Daoist sexual practices, martial arts, silk, gunpowder and paper, don't you?Chimpanzees too have been found to easily take customs and culture from one population to another, just like the humans. This could explain the capabilities of the last common ancestor of humans a... |
9 June 2007
04:18 GMT |
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There is only 1.2 % genetic difference between humans and chimps, but each gene that makes the difference represents the abyss between the human and the ape. Now, researchers have discovered perhaps the most significant gene of this pool, encoding the protein called type II neuropsin, involved in human learning and ... |
8 May 2007
19:46 GMT |
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They hunt with weapons, use stones and shelter in caves...And if you want more proofs of the relationship between people and chimps, a team at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, has come with another one. It has been found that bonobos and chimpanzees make hand and feet gestures the way w... |
1 May 2007
04:41 GMT |
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This is our closest relative, and like us, chimps are assigned to ... races!The most complex research to date on the chimp genetics has revealed that the traditional, geography-based classification of the chimps into three populations (western, central and eastern) is highly supported by strong genetic differences, ... |
23 April 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Humans have a very annoying quality: pride. And they like to praise themselves as being the most evolved species. But a new research has found that since the human-chimp split about 4 million years ago, the chimpanzee genome evolved at higher pace that the human one. This challenges that our large brains, cognitive ... |
17 April 2007
11:44 GMT |
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A new astonishing finding explains us the origin of the behavior of our ancestors of employing caves as shelter. Recently, a team from Iowa State University led by anthropologist Jill Pruetz had signaled in savanna chimpanzees from Senegal the habit of employing sharpened sticks to hunt small animals (particularly bu... |
11 April 2007
02:56 GMT |
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How did the humans become humans?Were the first humans more ape-like or human-like?Dr. Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist and Adjunct Professor of Biomaterials and of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at New York University College of Dentistry Modern, found that our earliest known close ancestor was much mo... |
26 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Australopithecus was the first lineage that split from a common ape ancestor of the humans and chimps 4 million years ago. A new research points to the fact that these ape-like human ancestors kept short ape-like legs for 2 million years because a squat physique could have been a strong support in male combat over ac... |
12 March 2007
04:32 GMT |
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Chimpanzees have been regarded for long as the most intelligent apes, but a new research revealed that their close relative, the bonobo (also wrongly named pygmy chimpanzee) was found to outperform the chimpanzees in cooperative behavior, even if scientists would have bet on chimps due to their complex strong coopera... |
9 March 2007
11:31 GMT |
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