Sentences with phrase «with chimpanzees»

The lower jaw of < em class ="redactor - inline - converted"> Graecopithecus found in Greece, which indicates that early humans may have split from the last common ancestor with chimpanzees in Europe (Credit: Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen)

In the 1960s, National Geographic sent a cameraman to film Jane Goodall's pioneering work with chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park.

Using this approach, we have sequenced ~ 14,000 protein - coding positions inferred to have changed on the human lineage since the last common ancestor shared with chimpanzees.

Jane: Using previously unseen footage stored for more than 50 years in National Geographic's archive, this documentary offers a close - up, extraordinary look at Jane Goodall's pioneering work with chimpanzees in 1960s Tanzania.

Specifically, the IOM committee says NIH should support only biomedical research with chimpanzees if it promises to advance public health, can not be done with another research model or ethically performed with humans, and the animals are kept in ecologically appropriate housing or habitats.

All told, human HARE5 mice had brains 12 % larger in area compared with chimpanzee HARE5 mice.

Now it looks as if the latest accidental beneficiary of decades of violence and despotism may be the bonobo, which along with the chimpanzee is the closest species to humans, in genetics if not disposition (bonobos are generally a more peaceful lot).

Effects of Conversational Partner in Conversations with Chimpanzees.

The non-mechanistic student of animal behavior tries to study animals in their complex relations with a complex world, as Goodall (1971, 1986) has done with chimpanzees in Gombe Reserve and as Donald R. Griffin (1976, 1984) has proposed.

«Conducting similar experiments with chimpanzees and other apes is a key next step,» Krupenye says.

The project demonstrates how studies with chimpanzees can contribute to the National Institute of Mental Health's recently introduced Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), which aims to explain the neurobiological basis of mental illness.

«It could change our perception of human uniqueness, that we share some of that ability not just with chimpanzees and closely related species but also with a very different species.»

Or it also may be, as with chimpanzees (now classified as an endangered species), the possible annihilation of the species altogether.

Early hominids have even been posited to have possibly interbred with chimpanzees until just before the appearance of Australopithecus in the fossil record.

Our evolving chemical signature, they suggest, allowed us to outcompete other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.

Comparisons with the chimpanzee genome indicate that human SIGLEC11 emerged through human - specific gene conversion by an adjacent pseudogene.

We may share many genes with chimpanzees, but it's rare for them to cluster together in the same combinations.

Interestingly, humans underwent a recent burst of DNA gain after their divergence with chimpanzee which is consistent with rates of human - specific Alu and L1 activity [74](Fig 8a).

oh... i meant to click on the other article about morality, with the chimpanzee picture.

A human of any race can mate with a human of any other race, but none of us can mate with a chimpanzee, for example.

Goodall sought a rapport with her chimpanzees and they seemed to return the compliment.

Research with chimpanzees finds that chimps yawn more around other yawning chimps from their own community than with those from a separate community.

The human version of a DNA sequence called HARE5 turns on a gene important for brain development (gene activity is stained blue), and causes a mouse embryo to grow a 12 percent larger brain by the end of pregnancy than an embryo injected with the chimpanzee version of HARE5.

«An ability which was previously thought to be uniquely human presumably has evolved earlier, so that it's shared with orangutans and presumably with chimpanzees as well.»

Anyone who has ever locked eyes with a chimpanzee has probably felt our primate identity.

Psychologist Gordon Gallup, currently at the University of Albany, S.U.N.Y, developed the test with chimpanzees.

Significantly, compared with the other animals studied, humans have experienced the fastest overall rate of change in the gene since our evolutionary line parted ways with chimpanzees and other primates.

«Given this complete absence of interest in a space now approaching 3 years, I think it's fair to say the scientific community has come up with other ways to answer the kinds of questions they used to ask with chimpanzees,» Collins tells Science.

When primatologist Jill Pruetz found herself threatened by wildfires in the savannas of Fongoli, Senegal, in 2006 she had two options: stay with the chimpanzees she was studying, or run.

When you arrived in Africa, did you imagine you'd be spending 47 years involved with chimpanzees?

Seventeen raters who work closely and directly with chimpanzees used the scale to assess 99 chimpanzees in their care at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Bastrop, Texas.

In this scenario, a related species, P. reichenowi, co-evolved with chimpanzees.

In other words, when it comes to studying speech, you won't get far with a chimpanzee — you'll need a zebra finch.

The researchers used the very large survey of human genetic variation called HapMap for their analysis, which compared human variations with the chimpanzee genome.

Prime - boost vaccination with chimpanzee adenovirus and modified vaccinia Ankara encoding TRAP provides partial protection against Plasmodium falciparum infection in Kenyan adult.

Frans de Waal's work with chimpanzees shows the probable origins of human ethics and morality in our predecessor social animals.

Audio Clip: A newscaster reports on Goodall, «Jane Goodall, tall, blonde and beautiful living with the chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa.»

The actor said he was «terrified» while shooting his scene with a chimpanzee in the Palme d'Or - winning satire.

The Dutch photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick was sent to document Jane Goodall's first establishment of contact with the chimpanzee population, resulting in the enormously popular Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, the second film ever produced by National Geographic.

Joining a few filet mignons with a chimpanzee head, they construct a beast with a face only a mad scientist could love.

If it seems as though Jane Goodall has always been out there, doing her thing with chimpanzees, she pretty much has: Since 1960, she has been either in Africa studying apes or traveling the world talking about them.

Craig Dongoski presents a body of work that employs drawing - sound experiments and innovations in tandem with chimpanzees through the Language Research Center in Atlanta.

Arjun with his chimpanzee Mira, Great Royal Circus, Gujarat, India, 1989 19 x 19 inches Platinum print; printed later

The researchers conclude that humans inherited a language of gestures and a latent capacity for learning symbolic language from the last ancestor we share with our chimpanzee and bonobo relatives — an ancestor that lived approximately 6 million years ago.

So then you would accept the scientific consensus that humans evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee?

A committee commissioned by the U.S. National Institutes of Health has recommended that NIH should continue funding biomedical and behavioral research with chimpanzees, but with new stipulations.

Relaxed genetic control of cortical organization in human brains compared with chimpanzees.