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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The Life and Death of Cholmondeley In this essay‚ "The Life and Death of Cholmondeley" Gerald M. Durrel effectively illustrates that the needs of Chumley‚ the intelligent ape are better met by him rather then the authorities of the London Zoo. Firstly‚ Chumley shows many qualities of a curios infant‚ he demonstrates a considerable potential to learn and analyze simple skills ideas and situations. Like a small child‚ it is evident that Chumley needs certain intimate attention not properly provided
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ANDREW KRAUSS “HUMAN REVOLUTION” 1. When anthropologists discovered “Lucy” in 1974‚ they considered her the oldest hominid of age 3.6 million years ago. How has the discovery of old hominid-like remains affected the “line” of evolutionary descent? They have declared sahelanthropus to be on the line this led to gorillas‚ not humans. Explain why a newer model of human ancestry is emerging. Different species are reproducing together. 2. What problem do paleontologists have with cataloguing
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One of the first people Alan goes to see is a person who believes chimps have more similarities than dissimilarities with humans. To explains one of their similarities as a type of politics. He believes that like humans chimps also develop a type of politics. He shows this by giving the chimps to watermelons and observing what the group of chimpanzees does with them. The two watermelons are taken by the two biggest males in the group while the females are left with nothing. The females begin to pester
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PS 177 – 01 74 2/14/13 This book is not Harry Potter‚ but it is pretty magical in its own way. The first chapter called Origins draws the reader’s attention by explaining how humans evolved from jungle dwellers into the bipedal hunting beasts that humans have become today. The next chapter on sex explains how humans are different from every other species because humans go through extensive pair-formation‚ pre-copulatory activity‚ and then into intense copulation. The chapter on rearing follows
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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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apes and humans‚ and the family of great apes. The subfamily bonobos belong to is the Ponginae with the genus Pan. The genus Pan includes primates such as the bonobos and chimpanzees. The bonobo is known as the species called paniscus‚ while the chimpanzee is troglodytes. Finally‚ the evolutionary characteristics of the genus Pan include "knuckle walking" and "thin teeth" (Mcgrew 4). Now that we have an idea of the classification of the bonobo we can begin to understand why it must be protected.
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I. Introduction Planet of Life: Apes to Man is narrated by Stacy Keach and it was originally produced and presented by the Discovery Channel. This series shows us about the history of evolution on this planet and each episode has a separate chapter in the biography of the world. This series also shows us that one group of primates moved onto plains where they evolved the ability to stand upright. They used computer and technology to examine the evolution of humans so that the series will be clear
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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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