News tagged with bonobos
For economic success, channel your inner bonobo
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Psychology Professor Marc Hauser dispels misconceptions about human and ape behavior with regard to patience, impulsiveness, and economic interactions in Harvard Museum of Natural History talk.
Reconstructing the evolution of laughter in great apes and humans
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, say researchers reporting ...
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Despite 'peacenik' reputation, bonobos hunt and eat other primates too
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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Unlike the male-dominated societies of their chimpanzee relatives, bonobo society—in which females enjoy a higher social status than males—has a "make-love-not-war" kind of image. While chimpanzee males frequently band together ...
Social tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task
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Mar 08, 2007 |
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In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful than chimpanzees at cooperating ...
Preserve established for bonobos
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Nov 21, 2007 |
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Congo has established a rain-forest preserve to protect the bonobo from deforestation and poachers, government officials said.
Ape gestures offer clues to the evolution of human communication
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Apr 30, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions ...
Bipedal humans came down from the trees, not up from the ground (w/ Video)
Aug 10, 2009 |
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A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor.
Study: 'Pacifist' chimps face extinction
Sep 08, 2005 |
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Pygmy chimpanzees known for resolving conflict through sex rather than fighting are reportedly facing extinction.
Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees
Apr 20, 2007 |
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The largest study to date of genetic variation among chimpanzees has found that the traditional, geography-based sorting of chimps into three populations—western, central and eastern—is underpinned by significant ...
New paper sheds light on bonobo language
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative Psychological an ...
ASU genetics research sheds light on evolution of the human diet
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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Diet - and how it has shaped our genome - occupies much of an evolutionary scientist's time. Anne Stone, associate professor of anthropology in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change, will ...
Ancient great ape fossil found in Africa
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Aug 24, 2007 |
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Scientists in Africa say they've have a found the fossil teeth of an ancient great ape that extends the human family tree millions of years.
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