We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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Distribution of chimpanzee and gorilla subspecies.
Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.
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The Left Bank Ape
The left-bank creatures, bolstering themselves on a rich chimpanzee diet when it was available and sustained by those staple gorilla foods when it wasn’t, lived a steadier life; they weren’t ...
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‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters
Gorilla or chimpanzee body parts, they said, now serve as equivalents in cultures where such rites and rituals persist. In reincarnation, for example, ape body parts are believed to reform and ...
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Primate Speciation: A Case Study of African Apes
Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...