Infants of the extinct human species Australopithecus africanus likely breast fed for up to a year after birth, similar to modern humans but of shorter duration than modern day great apes, according to an analysis of fossil ...
Archaeology
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A new study by researchers from Central European University's (CEU) Department of Cognitive Science, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the University of St. Andrews, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2022
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Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2022
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(Phys.org)—Quite often, those people who take care of animals learn over time which are smarter than others. They don't need to test them, they see it in the way the animals behave. Unfortunately, that's not very scientific, ...
A conservation group said Monday it has chosen the name Alba for a rare albino orangutan rescued from captivity in Indonesia after receiving a flood of suggestions from the public.
Ecology
May 15, 2017
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The similarities between orangutans and humans, and the argument that primates should be given their own form of human rights, will be put under the microscope in a presentation at The Australian National University (ANU).
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2016
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Great apes help a person access an object when that person thinks they knows where it is but is mistaken, according to a study published April 5, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Buttelmann from Max Planck ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2017
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An orangutan is slowly recovering after being shot with 74 airgun pellets in Indonesian, an official said Saturday.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2019
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Over the last 30 years, great ape numbers have plummeted across Africa, due to increasing rates of commercial hunting, habitat destruction, and disease. A continent-wide, data-based overview of their habitats is now possible, ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2012
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Under JST's Strategic Basic Research Programs, Noda Nobuo and Yamasaki Akinori at the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, in collaboration with other researchers, have discovered that autophagy is effective for selectively ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 13, 2020
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