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Domestic dog origins challenged - what about man?
"The suggestion that the domestic dog originated in East Asia has been challenged.The huge genetic diversity of dogs found in East Asia had led many scientists to conclude that domestication began there. But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in... 
Scientists Find HIV's 'Missing Link' in Sick Chimps
Scientist working at Gombe Nationals Park in Tanzania think they have found the HIV 'missing link' in sick chimps. Chimpanzees get a wasting disease similar to human HIV, called simian immunodeficiency... 
created by Barbara McPherson | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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65 views | 24 recommendations | 1 comment
Palm Oil Frenzy Threatens to Wipe out Orangutans
TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia - Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was... 
Hollywood Deaths, 2008
Heston was one of the great actors of the 20th century. Eartha Kitt was a great actress and singer. All these will be missed. ." In Memoriam Charlton Heston, April 5, age ... 
Great Apes Debate : To be or not to be made extinct by Humans
Just imagine an opposite condition , wehn Humans will be used as Guiena pig to justify the need to do reserch in the field of medical science. I think this is already happening in third world countries......not by...
Crows are brainier than your average apes
To start off with, I hate crows. They sound annoying, and they are too smart for their own good. I remember seeing some crows pick up rocks and then dropping it at someone's house over and over again. My theory is... 
Spain approves 'human rights' for apes
In a resolution passed earlier today, the Spanish parliament gave basic "human rights" to all of the species in the Great ape family. "Great apes should have the right to life and freedom, according to a... 
Spain awards apes legal rights
Spanish Parliament has approved a resolution to grant chimps, gorillas, and orangutans statutory rights previously reserved for their human cousins. Support for this action has crossed party lines and is expected... 
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
600 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
600 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists
I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory... 
Orang-utans 'king of the grinners'
"Laughter was not developed first by humans but by our close biological cousins the apes, according to new scientific research. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have found that orang-utans have a sense...
Toothy Find In Ethiopia Changes Evolutionary Assumption :: Oblate Spheroid
"The scientific community, through unearthed fossil evidence, has always assumed that humans evolved from apes. A new fossil may push back the approximate beginning of this split by millions of years.
What... 
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
356 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
356 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Crows are as intelligent as apes
The researchers devised some very difficult tasks for the crows. It's remarkable that these creatures found and executed the right sequence of steps to solve the problems facing them. This is the... 
created by Tom van B | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
1470 views | 58 recommendations | 6 comments
1470 views | 58 recommendations | 6 comments
