Sentences with phrase «about chimps»

The reserve also raises awareness of the need for conservation and about chimps in Africa.

I only started working in a lab because I was so nuts about chimps.»

Published in 1986, its 673 pages once seemed to contain everything one could ever want to know about chimps.

To deepen our concept of their culture, primatologists will have to learn more about chimps» interpersonal relationships.

The chimp genome sequence, which consists of 2.8 billion pairs of DNA letters, will not only tell us much about chimps but a comparison with the human genome will also teach us a great deal about ourselves.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

Late in the fall, Jane Goodall took some time away from her most recent book tour — and plans for yet another African safari — to talk about the chimp culture studies.

It's the earnestness that simultaneously damns it and saves it; Red Dawn is an ugly bit of propaganda about the chimp - ness of the man - monkey, but this man - monkey sort of digs it.

Not exact matches

A human - chimp comparison revealed some 35 million mutations in the single units of the overall sequence and also found about 5 million additions to or subtractions from the genome involving chunks of DNA sequence.

We share a much more recent common ancestor with chimps — dating back about 5 million years.

You think they want bunch of posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger kids to misbehave in schools across the country?

Also, we share about % 99 of our DNA with chimps, so yes, that's «almost human.»

So if chimps don't do it, what about young humans?

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

After chimps started acting as if they saw themselves in the mirror, after about 10 days, he anaesthetized them and applied an odor - free red mark to a location on their faces they could not see, such as above the brow ridge.

We now know that the human genome and the chimp genome differ by only about 1 percent.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

(This month's Science Agenda, about medical testing in chimps, notes other similarities that have been documented in chimps and humans.)

In addition to chimps, six monkey species, duikers, mongooses, and a porcupine died of the disease; overall, it appeared to be responsible for about 40 % of observed wildlife deaths.

As we were talking about this, [this] guy, this chimp, slams into the window again and I [suddenly] realized this is the birth of politics.

(laughs) So now the thing in the article that I had never heard before that talks about how many sequences, for example, in a chicken and a chimp are much, much closer than in us and a chimp and that's really fascinating.

HIV crossed over from chimps to humans in the early 1900s, but no one even knew about it until the 1980s.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

The genetic differences revealed between humans and chimps are likely to be profound, despite the oft - repeated statistic that only about 1.2 % of our DNA differs from that of chimps.

Steve: What's really interesting is we are all always hearing about, you know, chimps and humans are 98.7 percent the same, 99 percent the same, whatever the number happens to be depending on how you do your sequences.

Even if chimps never develop the symptoms of Alzheimer's, knowing that they spontaneously develop biological signs of the disease could yield useful information about its early stages and potentially how to prevent it, she says.

Steve: And one of them that's talked about [in] the article is HAR1, and it seems that is related to the development of the cerebral cortex, which is obviously one of the places where chimps and us have a lot of differences.

«I'm convinced they really do care about the welfare of those chimps.»

About 150 at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico will be moved later because they are further from Chimp Haven, Collins says.

Scientific American editor Christine Soares discusses the swine flu situation and Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the May issue — topics include the specific genetic differences between humans and chimps, side - channel hacking, food shortages, and our leaky atmosphere.

These can be costly excursions: About a third of the time, they meet chimps from a rival group, and occasionally the encounters turn bloody.

If chimps view hinderers as kindly as bonobos do, that finding would support the duo's proposal about human cooperation, he says.

Eventually the chimps forgot about the scientists and resumed their usual routine — eating fruit, lounging in their day nests, grooming each other, and mating.

But when the figures flashed for just four tenths or two tenths of a second, the chimp trumped all, still hitting about 80 percent of the time, whereas his human challengers» success rate plummeted to 40 percent.

The authors suggest that ancestors of the gorilla separated from the human - chimp line about 10 million years ago, consistent with previous estimates.

Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.

All together, the researchers found about 37,000 mutations occurring in 10,000 clusters in the chimp and human genomes that they think were caused by these proteins, they report today in Genome Research.

Only about 5 million years ago human beings and chimps shared a common ancestor, and we still have much behavior in common: namely, a long period of infant dependency, a reliance on learning what to eat and how to obtain food, social bonds that persist over generations, and the need to deal as a group with many everyday conflicts.

The molecular data indicate that humans and chimps went their separate ways only about 4.5 million years ago.

Chimp females sport pink swellings on their hind ends for about two weeks, signaling their fertility, and they're only approachable for sex during that time.

After taking body size into account, they found that humans averaged about 400 more calories per day than chimps and bonobos — 635 calories more than gorillas and 820 calories more than orangutans.

58 Why We Are Not Chimps Humans and chimpanzees are about 98 percent alike, yet the human brain is three times bigger and far more complex...

Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.

Stop a couple of rounds short of that and, at about one - third the size of a human brain, you've got one for a chimp.

These hominids, whose remains date to between about 100,000 and 60,000 years ago (SN: 4/30/16, p. 7), had chimp - sized brains, short statures and, like H. naledi, some skull features resembling early Homo species.

Scientists have long known that chimps and humans share about 98 percent of their DNA.

Another big factor in his decision was that «in 2013, Congress lifted a cap on how much NIH can spend on supporting chimpanzee retirement; and Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, a sanctuary where retired NIH chimps are being moved, has space for about 25 animals and could potentially take more later.»

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

And we share about the same amount of our DNA with only chimps, but not bonobos.

The number suggests that all biomedical research on chimps has stopped — or is about to stop — and it's unclear whether the work will ever start up again.