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...chimpanzee ancestors branched off from a common ancestor, they may have mated to create a hybrid species, according to a new study by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard published in the journal Nature last week. The study also found that the divergence between humans and chimps occurred nearly a million years later than previously estimated. “The thing that we’ve shown very solidly is there was a complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees,” said David Reich, an assistant professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the senior...
...Evolutionary Anthropology, which set out to test whether behaviors observed in the wild were the result of cooperation or coincidentally parallel self-interest. A chimpanzee was placed in a cage, outside of which was a plank with a piece of food. By pulling on two ropes simultaneously, the chimp could pull the food close enough to reach...
Sounds simple, right? But in some of the trials, the ropes were placed too far apart for the chimp to reach both at the same time. Instead, the chimp could get help by opening the door to an adjourning cage where a second chimp was waiting. The scientists found that chimps were far more likely to open the door to a second cage when the ropes were too far apart for them to succeed on their own, suggesting that they recognized when they needed assistance. Furthermore, when the exercise was repeated a number of times and the chimps were given...
Which brings me to the question: Is the average Harvard student smarter than a chimp...
...We’re pretty sure this is his actual name. [2] A Humanzee is a genetically mutated hybrid between a human and chimp. The most widely acknowledged Humanzee sighting was of a side-show freak named “Oliver” whose Humanzee credentials were confirmed by the fact that he was mad angry and hated all of the other chimps. He was then sent to a lab where they poured pepper juice in his eyes and jabbed him with dirty needles and stuff. That poor Humanzee...