Sentences with phrase «based on a chimpanzee»

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The NIH will no longer fund experiments using chimpanzees — based on animal welfare criteria — which is understandable, given chimpanzees» high intelligence and social needs.

You can essentially just observe chimpanzees in their natural environment and identify them individually based on their facial features,» she said.

There is no certain way to decide on the basis of existing knowledge whether chimpanzees and humans inherited their pattern of territorial aggression from a common ancestor or whether they evolved it independently in response to parallel pressures of natural selection and opportunities encountered in the African homeland.

ramidus (bottom; reconstruction based on computed tomography rendering shown) lacked many features that have evolved for advanced vertical climbing and suspension in extant chimpanzees (pan, top left).

He says he would have preferred they went where his group's lawsuit intended them to go — Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit where more than 200 chimpanzees live on 12 islands on Florida's east coast.

So Emerman and colleagues resurrected the analogous protein from PtERV1, based on its remnants in chimpanzees, and inserted it into a defective version of the mouse virus, which could infect cells but not reproduce.

From a practical standpoint, caretakers of chimpanzees living in zoos or elsewhere can now tailor individualized care based on each animal's personality thereby improving animal welfare.»

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

Based on the six other published mammalian genomes (human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat, dog and cow), the sequencers estimated that the feline genome contained some 20,000 genes.

Based on previous research, the scientists expected the orphaned juveniles to play less frequently and smoothly than the mother - reared chimpanzees: After all, the orphans had missed their most important caretaker throughout a sensitive socialisation period, and continued to lack a safe and facilitating social environment provided by their mothers.

«On the basis of individual neurons of the brain, humans may indeed have a far more active, or even more complex, transcription profile than chimpanzee,» the authors note.

Assessment of chimpanzee adenovirus serotype 63 neutralizing antibodies prior to evaluation of a candidate malaria vaccine regimen based on viral vectors.

To circumvent this problem, novel replication - defective adenoviral vaccine carriers based on El - deleted recombinants of chimpanzee - derived adenoviruses were developed.

Human and chimpanzees, nonetheless, share many cognitive, communicative, and emotional processes in common, based on similarities in their neurobiological structure and function.

On August 2, 1976, chimpanzee Dar was born at Albany Medical College on Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New MexicOn August 2, 1976, chimpanzee Dar was born at Albany Medical College on Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexicon Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexico.

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Humanity has evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee.