Chimpanzee Studies

Chimpanzee Studies

Follow new studies of chimpanzee populations. Chimpanzees are humans' closest relative. We can learn a lot about evolutionary and developmental psychology from chimps.

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    Study: Chimps Are More Evolved Than Humans, Our furrier brethren have undergone more genetic change than we have since two spec
    A cache of 4,300-year-old stone nutcrackers found in Africa pushes back chimpanzee tool use thousands of years, a new study sug
    With just 0. 6% difference in the most critical DNA sites, the new work suggests chimps should be in the same taxonomic group a
    Many researchers feel that chimps may be so much like humans that they may be able to understand and communicate with us using
    There's a bigger genetic jump between humans and chimps than previously believed
    Chimpanzees are really aggressors, primate experts say, more than capable of carrying out attacks as violent as one that left a
    Only 14.7% of our random sample of chimpanzee studies were cited - specifically, 14 papers were cited by 27 subsequent papers. An in-depth analysis of these studies revealed that the chimpanzee ...
    ... cell leukemia v, LCV = lymphocryptoviruses, RV2 = rhadinovirus (or gamma-2-herpesvirus) genogroup 2, VZV = varicella-zoster v, WMHBV = woolly monkey hepatitis B v. Citations of chimpanzee studies
    Examining the number of NIH funded projects for human clinical studies versus chimpanzee studies on hepatitis suggests that chimpanzees studies represent a small percentage of total studies.


       
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