Ape and Chimp News

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Hyenas' Ability to Count Helps Them Decide to Fight or Flee

Posted August 15, 2011:

• Oldest Evidence of Nails in Modern Primates

Posted August 11, 2011:

• Like Humans, Chimps Are Born With Immature Forebrains

Posted August 8, 2011:

• Chimpanzees Are Spontaneously Generous After All, Study Shows

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Six Million Years of Savanna: Grasslands, Wooded Grasslands Accompanied Human Evolution

Posted August 2, 2011:

• Special Software Helps Researchers Identify Individual Animals When Studying Behavior in the Wild

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Aging Brains Are Different in Humans and Chimpanzees; Evolution of Human Longevity Led to Both a Large Brain and Brain Shrinkage
• Pearl-Flowered Legume a Surprise New Find in the Cape Snowy Mountains, South Africa

Posted July 22, 2011:

• The Origin of Malaria: The Hunt Continues

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Chromosome Number Changes in Yeast

Posted July 19, 2011:

• Ancient Footprints Show Human-Like Walking Began Nearly 4 Million Years Ago

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Damaging Influence of Media on Public Perceptions of Chimpanzees

Posted June 28, 2011:

• A Happy Life Is a Long One for Orangutans

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Some Captive Chimpanzees Show Signs of Compromised Mental Health, Research Shows

Posted June 20, 2011:

• How the Immune System Responds to Hepatitis A Virus

Posted May 22, 2011:

• Scientists Find New Drug Target in Breast Cancer

Posted May 18, 2011:

• Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?

Posted May 16, 2011:

• Anthropologist Discovers New Fossil Primate Species in West Texas

Posted April 14, 2011:

• Recent Census in War-Torn DR Congo Finds Gorillas Have Survived, Even Increased

Posted April 7, 2011:

• Orphan Chimpanzees Successfully Released Into the Wild Using Advanced GPS Technology

Posted April 6, 2011:

• Chimpanzees' Contagious Yawning Evidence of Empathy, Not Just Sleepiness, Study Shows

Posted April 5, 2011:

• Chimp, Bonobo Study Sheds Light on the Social Brain

Posted March 31, 2011:

• Climate Change and Evolution of Cross River Gorillas

Posted March 28, 2011:

• Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Endangered Mountain Gorillas; Finding Confirms That Serious Diseases Can Pass to Gorillas from People

Posted March 17, 2011:

• A New Evolutionary History of Primates

Posted March 15, 2011:

• Africa: Long-Term Planning for Chimpanzee Rescue and Care

Posted March 10, 2011:

• Aging Rates, Gender Gap in Mortality Similar Across All Primates
• Anthropologists Link Human Uniqueness to Hunter-Gatherer Group Structure

Posted March 9, 2011:

• Missing DNA Helps Make Us Human

Posted March 8, 2011:

• World Record for DNA Analysis

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Great Tits Also Have Age-Related Defects
• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Gorillas Go Green: Apes Shed Pounds While Doubling Calories on Leafy Diet, Researcher Finds

Posted February 16, 2011:

• Fossils May Look Like Human Bones: Biological Anthropologists Question Claims for Human Ancestry

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Young Children Choose to Share Prizes After Working Together

Posted February 10, 2011:

• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species

Posted February 4, 2011:

• Blenny Bonanza: Seven New Species of Fish Revealed by Genetic Analysis

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Do Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead Infants?

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
• If You Knew Susie: The Sequence of the Orangutan Genome
• Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
• Genome Analysis Outlines Variations in Orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra

Posted January 6, 2011:

• British Medical Journal Declares MMR Study 'an Elaborate Fraud' -- Autism Claims Likened to 'Piltdown Man' Hoax

Posted December 20, 2010:

• Young Female Chimpanzees Treat Sticks as Dolls: Growing Evidence of Biological Basis for Gender-Specific Play in Humans

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Why Humans Are More Sensitive to Certain Viruses: Primate Immune System Differences Identified

Posted December 14, 2010:

• Unique Orangutan Reintroduction Project Under Imminent Threat

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Double-Edged Sword of Dominance: Top Chimps Tend to Suffer from More Parasites

Posted December 2, 2010:

• Teenage Great White Sharks Are Awkward Biters

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Primates Are More Resilient Than Other Animals to Environmental Ups and Downs

Posted November 30, 2010:

• Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go: Fragile Regions in Mammalian Genomes Go Through 'Birth and Death' Process

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