Sentences with phrase «humans and chimpanzees actually»
Humans and chimpanzees actually evolved from a common ancestor (CHLCA) 8 mil.
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Churchill believes that human behavior is actually something of a mosaic of traits demonstrated by chimpanzees and bonobos.
But there are actually two species of apes that are this closely related to humans: bonobos (Pan paniscus) and the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).
After analyzing human DNA from several populations around the world and examining primate genomes dating back to the shared ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees, researchers reached a striking conclusion that several gene variants linked to schizophrenia were actually positively selected and remained largely unchanged over time, suggesting that there was some advantage to having them.
Still, fully understanding the genetic differences between humans and chimps will require actually getting inside the chimpanzee's mind.
Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee, an international research team reports in the December 26, 2006, issue of the journal, PLOS Biology.