In 1965‚ a peculiar chimpanzee was the center of attention as scientists utilized American Sign Language in hopes of communicating efficiently with another species. The female chimpanzee was named Washoe. While this was by no means a quick study‚ scientists patiently taught Washoe for years and by the time she was an adult‚ Washoe had been about to spontaneously and appropriately use 350 different signs. It is still under much controversy that she could effectively use this language in complex sentences
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TOPIC: The physical characteristics of the Australopithecus hominid. The first Australopithecus hominid (later named Australopithecus africanus) was discovered in by an anatomy professor in Johannesburg‚ South Africa named Raymond Dart in 1924. Prof. Dart initially discovered a five year old skull and it was unlike that of an ape’s he had ever seen. According to!!!!!!!!!‚ Studying the skull‚ he made the following discoveries: -The skull had “ape-like” features -had a projecting face -small brain
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proteins‚ for dealing with toxins‚ and for responding to the environment. The machinery has to accomplish many of the same things in cells of many kinds‚ so it should not be surprising that there are similarities among proteins not only between man and chimpanzee but throughout the world of living things” (Mitchell). But specifically‚ humans and apes really aren’t so different compared to other living species. Some specific physical similarities between both is how the rib cage is very broad from left to
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The life-history of modern human is so different from the other extant apes such as chimpanzee. For example‚ human has childhood and adolescent before their mature. This should be an adaptive strategy for the expanded and energetically costly brains.The right-handedness shared by both Homo sapiens and neanderthalensis might be a result of
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studies when she ventured to Africa to work for Dr. Louis Leakey in 1957. From there Goodall earned her PhD at Cambridge University in 1965. She continued her studies‚ focusing especially on the study of chimpanzees; hence Goodall’s nickname "the chimpanzee lady." In 1977‚ she established the Jane Goodall Institute to educate young people about conserving chimpanzees and all the other animals of this planet. Most of Goodall’s books focus on her progressing studies‚ however‚ in Harvest for Hope: A
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Origination and Geographical Distribution -The bonobo is the most recently discovered great ape in modern times. It was revealed in 1929 by German anatomist Ernest Schwarz that a skull once thought belonging to a juvenile chimpanzee was in fact a new subspecies of chimpanzee known now as the Pan paniscus‚ or bonobo. (Waal 6) During the Pleistocene epoch approximately 1.5 million years ago‚ the Congo River was formed in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (San Diego Zoo 2) The river
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Nim was a chimpanzee who was born in the early 1970’s. He was bred for an experiment where he would live with a human family and try to learn sign language. The purpose of the study was to prove if language is inherent only in humans or if animals could somehow comprehend. Nim was raised in a human-like setting and taught sign language as if he were a human child. Nim was born in a lab facility center in Norman‚ Oklahoma. His mother‚ Caroline‚ was treated as a breeding machine—all her babies
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of Ardi's pelvis are shorter and wider in length in contrast of the upper blades of apes (Ann Gibbons 39). Ardi's spine resembled to a human's spine‚ in other words it was both long and curved instead of short and stiff like what a chimpanzee's would look like (Ann Gibbons 39). Therefore‚ these modifications suggested to C. O Lovejoy that Ar. ramidus had been bipedal for an extended timeframe (Ann Gibbons 39). Even so‚ the lower pelvis is enormous and sophisticated alike to African
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Jane Goodall Jane Goodall is one of the world’s most admired women‚ acclaimed scientist‚ and conservationist (www.nationalgeographic.com). The work that she does is called ethology‚ which is the study of animal behavior. Such a successful woman has numerous admirable qualities. She has contributed greatly to society as well as to the animal kingdom. Her research paved the way for countless primate studies‚ and has changed the way many people view chimpanzees. Trying to narrow down only three
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis has a skull with an elongated shape with a relatively short‚ vertical face‚ which is set high relative to the skull vault. The eyes are set far apart from each other and have a very large continuous bony brow ridge above them. Examination of the lower jaw reveals that Sahelanthropus had a total of thirty two teeth‚ which is common in all Old World monkeys‚ apes‚ and humans. The foramen magnum (where the skull opens for spinal cord passage) is positioned forward and oriented
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