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- noun Plural form of
chimpanzee .
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It doesn't make sense to design a pseudogene (a gene that no longer functions as a gene) once, let alone twice — once in chimpanzees and once in humans.
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I hope you are aware that the genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees is “just” about 2%.
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Well, according to “Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans” (Wrangham, Wilson, and Muller 2006, Primates 47: 1)
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The next video, of chimpanzees, is much more intriguing:
Animal intelligence news, with videos! « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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The same population of chimpanzees is also well known for respecting prey ownership, where the successful individual shares with cohunters [5].
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The primate specialist says the actions of the dearuki-zoku closely resemble behavior patterns in chimpanzees, which tend to travel in groups, walking around for a long time without going to any specific place, then eating and disposing of their wastes in the same place before bedding down on piles of grass whenever and wherever the inclination takes them.
- Boing Boing 2005
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Synopsis: When a member of a scientific team assigned to study chimpanzees is diagnosed with leukemia, the scientists decide to teach the chimps about death.
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In spite of this Gajdusek showed that the disease was caused by an infectious agent which in chimpanzees gave a disease identical with kuru in man.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 - Presentation Speech 1992
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Also from patients with this disease could an infectious agent be isolated in chimpanzees in
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A vaccine of this kind has been shown to protect against hepatitis B virus infections in chimpanzees and recently also in humans.
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