According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that chimpanzees prefer to collaborate and cooperate with each other only when they have to. If it doesn't serve their own interests, the primates will turn away from a task requiring a group to work together.
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23 September 2011
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Scientists always wondered why humans are more susceptible to certain infectious diseases, than their primate cousins, and now a new study conducted by the University of Chicago, concluded that the explanation lies in the species-specific changes in immune signaling pathways.The researchers carried out the first geno... |
17 December 2010
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A new statistical model suggests that the evolutionary break-up between humans and chimpanzees occurred 8 million years ago, 3 million years earlier than what was previously thought.For decades, paleontologists agreed that humans evolved some 5 or 6 million years ago, and their estimations relied on fossils.The only ... |
5 November 2010
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A group of researchers publishes the conclusions of a new study on bonobos (pan paniscus), that shows the primates tend to use their heads to prevent others from performing something bad. Video evidence captures the bonobos as they shake their heads as to say “no,” when they see others attempting to perfo... |
7 May 2010
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Undoubtedly, the most important stage in our evolution took place when we learned to use our hands to create tools. These innovations would go on to become the hallmark of our species, as most of the things we do, or are capable of, today are in some way or another connected to tools. But a team of anthropologists ar... |
18 January 2010
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Humans are known to be one of the few species in the world today that can appreciate art, artificial constructs that play on our capacity to idealize and understand abstract things. Music is at the forefront of this ability. While there are those of us who cannot comprehend the art behind a certain painting, music ge... |
30 November 2009
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In a recent set of studies, investigators have finally found one of the most important genes in our bodies, the one that determines our ability to formulate and understand speech. The gene, called FOXP2, can be found in all humans, but lacks in chimpanzees, other primates and big apes. It is a transcription factor, w... |
12 November 2009
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According to a number of French researchers, a woman in Cameroon was recently identified to carry a weird strain of an HIV-like virus, which most likely originated in a gorilla. The announcement, made on Sunday, is one of the few to date that hint at the fact that gorilla-bound viruses can circulate in human hosts as... |
3 August 2009
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The latest issue of the Journal of Biogeography holds one of the most interesting hypotheses of this year – namely the theory that humans are not as much related to chimpanzees as previously stated, but rather to orangutans. The new paper, written by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Mu... |
18 June 2009
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Recent direct observations incriminate the so-called peaceful chimpanzee species without a shadow of a doubt. In three separate instances, the primates were observed successfully hunting and eating other primates' infants, after they've had enough fruits to eat. These observations severely oppose what was a... |
15 October 2008
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The number of chimpanzees in the populations living in Africa's Cote d'Ivoire has diminished by more than 90 percent over the past 18 years, when the last survey was conducted. Researchers analyzing them were stupefied of this find, as only one viable population of the West African chimpanzee subspecies is ... |
14 October 2008
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