Chimpanzees elsewhere, where there are more predators, build nests much higher up in
the trees than the chimpanzees in Fongoli, Senegal, where I did my experiment.
Not exact matches
«H. naledi wouldn't have been in any way as proficient as
chimpanzees or much more primitive hominins at climbing
trees, but it still would be better - suited
than we are,» said Harcourt - Smith, lead author of the other H. naledi paper.
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.