Sentences with phrase «of chimpanzees»

(Hugo van Lawick National Geographic Films / Abramorama) Jane Goodall interacts with David Greybeard, the first chimp to lose its fear of the naturalist in her studies of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania.

Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome.

In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on December 15 declaring that «most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary» and recommending the sharp curtailing of government - funded research on humankind's closest genetic relative.

Genes involved in microcephaly, a condition in which patients have brains roughly the size of chimpanzee brains, directly control the levels of BRCA1 expression, he says.

The committee, however, concluded that «most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary.»

«They are very petite and have the brain size of chimpanzees.

They included more chimpanzees from various regions in Africa in their analysis, because previous genetic studies have suggested that four distinct geographical subspecies of chimpanzee exist.

They also devised a simplified set of about 30 DNA markers that zookeepers or primatologists could use to determine the origins of a chimpanzee with uncertain heritage.

Humans did not evolve from either of the living species of chimpanzees.

To overcome these difficulties and estimate mutation rates directly, a team of researchers including Tetsuro Matsuzawa of the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS) and Yasuhiro Go of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) conducted a study utilizing high - quality whole genome sequencing of a chimpanzee parent - offspring trio, and successfully disclosed the precise mutation rates and modes through the transmission of genomes from parents to child.

«Europe is as likely a place of [hominid] origins, and even of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans, as Africa,» he says.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

The center — which held the world's largest colony of chimpanzees available for research — will move about 10 of the animals at a time to keep them in their current social groups.

The new report cites an analysis that says the federally funded population of chimpanzees will «largely cease to exist» by 2037 unless breeding restarts soon.

The exact number of chimpanzees in this area is unclear since no census has been conducted.

Each assistant was charged with rating 21 - 43 of 128 chimps, so each was rated by 2 - 9 assistants The animals were from the Kasekela or Mitumba communities of chimpanzees at the park.

Description: While attempting the space - pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash - lands on the ape - ruled planet.

Gary Thompson: Filmmaker Alastair Fothergill spent three years in the jungles of the Ivory Coast capturing 700 hours of rare, beautiful footage detailing the complex, dramatic and at times quite moving lives of a chimpanzee clan.

All of which means that story 3, about the shunning of chimpanzees who lose fights is TOTALL.......

In this exercise, the numbers 1 to 8 were split between two screens, with pairs of chimpanzees required to take turns to ensure the numbers were picked in the right order.

What the events were that occurred in the origin of the chimpanzee and human lines — before the chimpanzee - human split of 6 million years ago — can only be speculated.

As an adult, she moved to Tanzania and made the study and protection of the chimpanzees in the Gombe forest a focus of international fascination.

Hvilsom noted that their comprehensive analyses of chimpanzee genomes revealed that the apes» genetic information can be used to determine from which country, and even which region, individual chimpanzees originated.

The study of chimpanzee personality is not novel; however, according to the authors, previous instruments designed to measure personality left a number of vital questions unanswered.

«Although the scale of the violence after the fission may be unusual, inter-community violence and killings are a ubiquitous feature of chimpanzee social behavior, so the post-fission violence is not unique,» lead author Joseph Feldblum of Duke University's department of evolutionary anthropology told Seeker.

The NCBR serves as a repository for in vivo structural MRI scans of chimpanzee brains, in vivo and postmortem diffusion tensor images (DTI), as well as postmortem fixed and frozen brain specimens.

Jane Goodall, whose observations of chimpanzees in East Africa revolutionized our understanding of them, leads the Jane Goodall Institute.

New York's Supreme Court, Appellate Department, had ruled last year that the suits filed on behalf of chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko were successive habeas proceedings that must fail because they were not supported by changed circumstances.

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However, it also concludes that the emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases may require the use of chimpanzees as research subjects in the future.

Even without a carefully articulated theory of value, we can make rough and realistic judgments that the subjectivity of the sea mammals is greater than that of fish, and that the subjectivity of a chimpanzee is greater than that of a chicken.

The study shows that army ants are not a poor substitute for preferred foods, but a staple part of chimpanzee diets.

The latest whale rescue, details below, goes in same category of small victories as the recent detection of a live tiger cub hidden in luggage flowing through Bangkok's airport and last week's confiscation of dozens of chimpanzee and gorilla body parts by authorities in Gabon.

The two species, which split from a common ancestor some 6 million years ago, vary in less than 4 percent of their genetic information, according to the first preliminary draft of the chimpanzee genome, released in August by an international team of researchers.

The first confirmed case of a chimpanzee with trisomy 22 was documented in 1969.

This cover story is a look at what information has been coming out of direct genetic comparisons of the chimpanzee genome and the human genome.

As with the children, a significant number of chimpanzees made an effort to witness the disliked keeper being punished.

In what it is calling the largest resettlement of chimpanzees from a U.S. research center, Louisiana's New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) announced yesterday that it will move all 220 of its chimps to a sanctuary in Blue Ridge, Georgia.

He noticed that adult bonobos — the closest relative of chimpanzees — look like juvenile chimpanzees in many ways.

Deep sequencing reveals mutation rates: Genomic study of a chimpanzee parent - child trio has shed light on mutation rates from one generation to the next.

The last few million years of chimpanzee evolutionary history are fraught with population explosions followed by implosions demonstrating remarkable plasticity.

Why try to gauge the ability of chimpanzees to grasp the concept of cooking?

Thomas Rowell, director of the New Iberia Research Center in western Louisiana, which houses the largest number of chimpanzees among NIH - supported research centres, says that his centre «concurs in principal with most of the recommendations» made by the IOM.

Tooth characteristics of a chimpanzee - sized primate that once lived in southeastern Europe suggest that the primate, known as Graecopithecus, may have been a hominid, not an ape as many researchers assume.

Balkwill and Mic Rolph also show how genes evolve, pointing out that «98.4 per cent of your genes are the same as the genes of any chimpanzee you might see in a wildlife park».