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Human Evolution Traded Fur for Sweat Glands—and Now, Our Wounds Take Longer to Heal Than Those of Other Mammals
Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...
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Human chromosomes evolved at hyperspeed to give us better brains, but there's a catch
The research focused on parts of chromosomes known as human accelerated regions (HARs), which have evolved most rapidly since humans split from chimpanzees on the evolutionary tree—changing 10 ...
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Monkey map
In 4 January Science, Asao Fujiyama and colleagues at the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan present a first-generation human-chimpanzee comparative genome map (Science 2002, 295:131-134).They used ...
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Bonobos and chimps express empathy much like humans
New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.
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Chimp relatives use humanlike grammar, study finds
Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make ...
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Six ape genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere
Acrocentric chromosomes are unusual in other ways ... biologists believe that the differences that distinguish humans from chimpanzees are regulatory in origin -- slight changes in where and ...
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Six ape species' genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere, providing open-access reference for human evolution studies
Acrocentric chromosomes are unusual in other ways ... biologists believe that the differences that distinguish humans from chimpanzees are regulatory in origin—slight changes in where and ...