Sentences with phrase «from other chimps»

Not exact matches

The human (and all the other) genome projects were predicated on the reasonable assumption that spelling out the full sequence of genes would reveal the source of that diversity of form and attributes that so readily distinguish worm from fly, mouse, chimp and human.

But Leendertz says chimps migrating in from other areas may have made up for past die - offs.

Other studies suggest the parasite jumped from chimps to humans at a later date.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

The chimps» actions, she would later report, set them apart from other nonhuman animals — and they may reveal the evolutionary origins of how we came to master fire.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

In one test, chimps taught to count from one to nine (in return for a peanut or other treat) competed with a dozen human volunteers in monitoring numbers that turned into squares on a computer screen.

But others, such as famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine, argue that P. reichenowi jumped the species barrier from chimps to humans quite recently and then became P. falciparum.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.

Do chimps from various sites treat each other differently?

Bright animals from chimps to crows know what they know and what others are thinking.

For a start, the degree to which we know stuff and know what others know is quite possibly what separates humans from everything else on the planet, from rocks to chimpanzees (see «Knowledge: Of chimps, curiosity and quantum mechanics «-RRB-.

The fossil's humanlike face and teeth and chimp - size cranium are so different from any other known hominid that Brunet and his team have denominated it a new species: Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

In both experiments, they studied RNA from chimps, humans, and one of the other primates.

Wray and his colleagues sequenced this regulatory region and some flanking DNA from 74 human chromosomes as well as 32 chromosomes from seven other primates, including chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.

(For more information on how these two species split, read «What separates humans from chimps and other apes?»

Using databases created by other labs, the Duke University scientists cross-checked areas of human DNA that had developed differences from chimp DNA with areas of DNA they expected to be important for gene regulation.

In the April 2007 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard, the Broad Institute and Arizona State show that there has been very little detectable admixture between the different populations and that chimps from the central and eastern populations are more closely related to each other than they are to the western «subspecies.»

The designers didn't love this game, they just threw together poorly understood ideas from other games like «Halo» and «Half - Life» so that the management chimps responsible for the project could be satisfied that it was ripping off popular products.