Showing posts with label Chimpanzees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chimpanzees. Show all posts
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Did the LCA Have Teeth More Like a Gorilla?

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Artificial intelligence is playing a role in understanding human evolution.  From the Australian site News.com comes a story about new work...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Genetic Model Identifies Paranthropus boisei as Vector For Transmission of Herpes Virus

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CNN (usual caveats) reports on a study that identifies Paranthropus boisei as the likely transmission vector of genital HSV-1.  From the st...
Monday, July 23, 2012

For the Want of a Chromosome Pair

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Slate has an article on how we ended up with 46 chromosomes. Despite the colloquial writing style, there is some good information about ho...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

The Diet of Australopithecus sediba

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There is some suspicion that Australopithecus sediba , discovered by Lee Berger (or, rather, his son) may be on the line that eventually lea...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Bonobo DNA Sequenced

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The Los Angeles Times is reporting on a story from Nature in which the complete genome sequence of the Bonobo or Pygmy Chimpanzee, has been ...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Gorilla DNA Sequenced

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According to a story out of the LA Times, the gorilla genome has been completely sequenced. Eryn Brown writes: By comparing the new gorilla...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Did Australopithecines Have Bonding Patterns Like Modern Chimpanzees?

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The Guardian has a story on research done with Australopithecus africanus and A. robustus teeth that suggests that, while the men did not...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Gibbons and Siamangs Booted off the Island

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Science Daily has a story about a new Primate phylogenetic tree that has been derived from sequencing 54 genetic regions in 186 species. O...
Monday, June 22, 2009

More on the Human-Orang Connexion

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Here is a much longer article from Eurekalert! on the idea that humans are more closely related to orang-utans than to chimpanzees. They w...

Orangs Our Closest Ancestors?

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There is a short story out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Jeffrey Schwartz and John Grehan have discovered that chimpanzees may not be...
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