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Chimpanzee who knew sign language dies
SPOKANE, Wash. - Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first learned a bit of American Sign Language in a research project in Nevada, had been living on Central Washington University's Ellensburg campus since 1980.Activists Fight to Have Chimpanzee Declared Human
Animal rights activists in Vienna are fighting to have a 26-year-old chimpanzee named Matthew declared human.
36-year-old British teacher Paula Stibbe wants to be appointed Matthew’s legal guardian in case the animal shelter he lives in shuts down, however, under Austrian law, legal guardianship is limited to humans.
Matthew, along with another chimpanzee and a crocodile, is being cared for by an animal shelter that requires $8000 a month in donations.
Post Employees Unhappy about Cartoon
Huffingtonpost.com 02/19/09 The mood inside the New York Post, it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimulus as a dead, crazed chimpanzee. On Wednesday, an employee of the paper told the Huffington Post that the phone lines had been inundated with complaints over what was interpreted as a racially charged jab at Obama. "As they f--king should be," said the source.Jane Goodall - leave the lightest possible ecological imprint on the world as possible
Today I am jazzed! Last night I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Jane Goodall speak.Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed "Ardi."
Culutred Cousins?
So in my Intro Achaeology class we have been learning about lithic (stone tool) technology. I saw this article in one of my favorite mags Archaeology Magazine....:nerdgirl: Sorry its super long
A wild chimpanzee in a nest (or bed or sleeping platform), essentially a simple shelter. This is a constructed artifact, a simple example of elementary technology, which happens to be a great ape universal
by Kirsten Vala
Looking at apes, tools, and human evolution
Many animals have been observed using tools: Dolphins use sponges when fishing, crows use sticks to forage for insects in dead wood, capuchin monkeys use stones to break open nuts.
New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon
WASHINGTON – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine. The finding "highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central Africa," said the researchers, led by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen, France."Human-Faced" Missing Link Found in Spain??
Move over Ida—you're last month's news. There's a new (purported) "missing link" in town. An 11.9-million-year-old fossil ape species with an unusually flat, "surprisingly human" face has been found in Spain."Missing Link" found??
A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City. Known as "Ida," the nearly complete transitional fossil is 20 times older than most fossils that provide evidence for human evolution. It shows characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans), said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum.Indonesian "Hobbit Humans" a separate species
Scientists have found more evidence that the Indonesian "Hobbit" skeletons belong to a new species of human - and not modern pygmies. The one metre (3ft) tall, 30kg (65lbs) humans roamed the Indonesian island of Flores, perhaps up to 8,000 years ago. Since the discovery, researchers have argued vehemently as to the identity of these diminutive people.
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