Most Infectious Malaria Strain Came From Chimps?

Malaria comes in four strains varying in virulence.  Recent studies show that the most infectious strain may have come from chimps. Malaria is a disease of the blood.  Microscopic parasites invade the...

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...

Rainforest ecosystem to be built inside giant dome at British zoo

A massive bio-dome is being planned at a British Zoo. The £90 million project will be called "Heart of Africa" and will be the only domed ecosystem in the UK." The bio-dome will be an African rainforest-themed sanctuary for a band of gorillas, a large troop of chimpanzees,...

HIV May Have Been Infecting Humans For A Century

New information published in the journal Nature sheds new light on the origin of the virus that causes AIDS, a scourge that has spread around the world and killed millions."A biopsy taken from an African woman...

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...

Chimps reveal mystery of female sex cries

I'm trying to work out how to apply this knowledge to human behaviour around sex cries and other noises. Not quite got it yet - all suggestions welcome." Elephants, lions and humans are all known to do it but it...

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...

10-million-year-old ape found

This story is sure to get Christian Fundalmentalists tongues wagging.   Of course perhaps these photos from the old Red Rose Tea commercials from the 1950's and 1960's will shed some light on what...

Unselfishness - not just humans anymore

Unselfishness not just a human trait - "Chimpanzees will often lend a helping hand even if there's no reward, suggests research published this week, challenging theories that altruism is unique to...

What chimps can teach women about getting the best mate - the estrus synchron...

How do female chimps make sure they only get the best mates? By never wanting to reproduce at the same time, insuring that none of them have to settle for less.

Chimpanzees 'Hunt using Spears'

Chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bush babies, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that demonstrates a whole new level of tool use and planning by our closest living relatives. Perhaps even more intriguing, it was only the females who fashioned and...

Damn dirty apes used tools before you, bub

Primate news! The Guardian reports: "The first prehistoric evidence for a "chimpanzee stone age" has been uncovered by archaeologists working in an African rainforest. Primitive stone hammers and anvils dating from 4,300 years ago were excavated from pits at three sites in...

We and Apes - What Makes Us Different?

"You don't have to be a biologist or an anthropologist to see how closely the great apes—gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans—resemble us. Even a child can see that their bodies are pretty much the...

Another Example of Mutual Aid

" So much for Ayn Rand's selfish individualism. Or the nutbars that believe capitalism is natural, and ordained by G*D. Studies Show Chimps to Be Collaborative and Altruistic"

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If this is true, then selfishness is learned in the home, or develops in the home, when the child is very young.

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