Sentences with phrase «subspecies of chimp»

Wild bonobo populations are entirely contained in that river system, separated from two nearby subspecies of chimps, the eastern and central subspecies.

Not exact matches

Because the skull bore the distinctive sagittal crest of gorillas but otherwise had chimp - like dimensions, some primatologists suggested it represented a new subspecies of gorilla, while others believed it to be a chimp - gorilla hybrid.

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.»