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Bonobo
Dec 19, 2020 6:27:28 GMT -5
Post by brobear on Dec 19, 2020 6:27:28 GMT -5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201216134657.htm Whole genomes map pathways of chimpanzee and bonobo divergence Comparison reveals gene pathways associated with striking differences between the two species Date: December 16, 2020 Source: Emory Health Sciences Summary: Chimpanzees and bonobos are sister species that diverged around 1.8 million years ago as the Congo River formed a geographic boundary and they evolved in separate environments. Now, a whole-genome comparison of bonobos and chimpanzees reveals the gene pathways associated with the striking differences between the two species' diets, sociality and sexual behaviors.
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Bonobo
Dec 19, 2020 7:11:34 GMT -5
Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 19, 2020 7:11:34 GMT -5
Chimpanzee and bonono are like brown bear and polar bear.
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Bonobo
Jan 3, 2021 4:27:38 GMT -5
Post by brobear on Jan 3, 2021 4:27:38 GMT -5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201216134657.htm Whole genomes map pathways of chimpanzee and bonobo divergence Comparison reveals gene pathways associated with striking differences between the two species. Chimpanzees and bonobos are sister species that diverged around 1.8 million years ago as the Congo River formed a geographic boundary and they evolved in separate environments. Now, a whole-genome comparison of bonobos and chimpanzees reveals the gene pathways associated with the striking differences between the two species' diets, sociality and sexual behaviors.
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Bonobo
Jan 24, 2021 13:52:10 GMT -5
Post by brobear on Jan 24, 2021 13:52:10 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo The bonobo; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Although bonobos are not a subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), but rather a distinct species in their own right, both species are sometimes referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees, or chimps. Taxonomically, the members of the chimpanzee/bonobo subtribe Panina (composed entirely by the genus Pan) are collectively termed panins. The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face, tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. The species is omnivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests, including seasonally inundated swamp forests. Because of political instability in the region and the timidity of bonobos, there has been relatively little field work done observing the species in its natural habitat. Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans. As the two species are not proficient swimmers, the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago possibly led to the speciation of the bonobo. Bonobos live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river. There are no concrete data on population numbers, but the estimate is between 29,500 and 50,000 individuals. The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and human population growth and movement, though commercial poaching is the most prominent threat. Bonobos typically live 40 years in captivity; their lifespan in the wild is unknown, but it is almost certainly much shorter.
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Bonobo
Jan 24, 2021 13:56:36 GMT -5
Post by brobear on Jan 24, 2021 13:56:36 GMT -5
Wiki continued: Bonobos and chimps are the two species which make up the genus Pan, and are the closest living relatives to humans (Homo sapiens). The exact timing of the Pan–Homo last common ancestor is contentious, but DNA comparison suggests continual interbreeding between ancestral Pan and Homo groups, post-divergence, until about 4 million years ago.
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Bonobo
Aug 1, 2021 12:38:37 GMT -5
Post by brobear on Aug 1, 2021 12:38:37 GMT -5
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bonobos-teach-humans-about-nature-language-180975191/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1T696Oz7cyqBLhX5Gjbqw1ldoW9ZW4Jvw5kA2SNf5m4WMZmAG4XO39QKY WHAT CAN BONOBOS TEACH US ABOUT THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE? Six months later, her phone rang. It was Duane Rumbaugh, the psychologist who had invited her to speak at the symposium. A position had opened up at Georgia State University, he said, with connections to the Yerkes Primate Research Center, in Atlanta, the oldest institute in the United States for the study of nonhuman primates. The center was acquiring several chimplike hominids called bonobos from the forests of the Congo River Basin, in what was then Zaire. Was Savage-Rumbaugh interested? She didn’t have to think twice. Very little had appeared about bonobos in the scientific literature, but some researchers regarded them as a close living model of early humans. In their gait and facial structure, they resembled Australopithecus, a group of apes that went extinct about two million years ago and are believed to be among the ancestors of humankind. In time, research on free-living bonobos would reveal that they have a matriarchal social structure and that—unlike chimps and humans—they almost never kill one another. Savage-Rumbaugh accepted the position and packed her bags for Atlanta.
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