Sentences with phrase «pygmy chimpanzees»

Indeed evolution authorities Cherfas and Gribbin believe that a strong case can be made that the gracile forms are little more than varieties of extinct pygmy chimpanzees, while the robust forms are varieties of gorillas.7

Except for having small rather than large teeth, and a quadrupedal rather than a bipedal pelvis, pygmy chimpanzees are remarkably like early gracile australopithecines in their skeletal dimensions.

The chimpanzee and bonobo, formerly called the «pygmy chimpanzee,» are the two species most closely related to humans in the evolutionary tree.

A bonobo, formerly called a pygmy chimpanzee, is eating fruit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

'' [Adrienne] Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known and finds the similarities striking.

Not exact matches

The Gola Rainforest is home to 327 bird species, the elusive pygmy hippo, a population of 300 chimpanzees and 49 species of larger mammal.