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966 results for: Chimpanzee

  1. Life

    Stone Age gal gets hip

    Researchers have found an approximately 1-million-year-old fossil pelvis that, in their view, indicates that Homo erectus females gave birth to surprisingly big-brained babies.

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  2. Animals

    People bring both risk and reward to chimps

    Tolerating human researchers and ecotourists brought a group of chimpanzees a higher risk of catching human diseases but a lower chance of attacks from poachers.

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  3. Anthropology

    A hip stance by an ancient ancestor

    By 6 million years ago, upright human ancestors had evolved a hip design that remained stable for perhaps the next 4 million years, until the appearance of hip modifications in Homo erectus.

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  4. Humans

    Neandertal mitochondrial DNA deciphered

    Researchers have completed a mitochondrial genome sequence from a Neandertal. DNA taken from a 38,000-year-old bone indicates that humans and Neandertals diverged 660,000 years ago and are distinct groups.

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  5. Shared Differences

    The architecture of our genomes is anything but basic.

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  6. Chimp Champ: Ape aces memory test, outscores people

    A young chimp outperforms college students on a test of recalling numbers glimpsed for less than a quarter of a second. With video.

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  7. Hobbit wars

    Little islanders did not have a growth disorder

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  8. 19864

    A simpler explanation for orangutans walking upright like humans is that this feature evolved in a common ancestor that did not include African apes. In other words, orangutans, not chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. This would make sense of all the similarities in sexuality, reproduction, physiology, anatomy, and behavior that are unique to humans […]

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  9. Humans

    From the July 10, 1937, issue

    Photographing the earliest developmental stages of opossum eggs, a 'heavy electron' in cosmic rays, and teaching chimpanzees to use sign language.

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  10. Anthropology

    Wild chimps scale branches of culture

    Distinctive behaviors in wild-chimp communities point to a basic cultural capacity in these animals.

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  11. Doing the DNA shuffle

    DNA near the ends of people's chromosomes shows surprisingly large differences from the corresponding DNA in other great apes.

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  12. Anthropology

    Chimpanzee Stone Age: Finds in Africa rock prehistory of tools

    Researchers have uncovered evidence of a chimpanzee stone age that started at least 4,300 years ago in West Africa.

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