Word: chimp
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...switched breasts. Catizone started drinking Busch Lights. Schonberger started spending most of his waking hours in Lamont, blogging and watching music videos in the Language Resource Center. Like “Joey from ‘Friends’” [1] and that chimp in the movie “Ed” (perhaps one of the greatest sports films of all time), we began to merge into one another...
While most ambitious people keep their secret Caesar tucked safely away, it can emerge surprisingly, even suddenly. Says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta and the author of a new book, Our Inner Ape: "You can have a male chimp that is the most laid-back character, but one day he sees the chance to overthrow the leader and becomes a totally different male. I would say 90% of people would behave this way too. On an island with three people, they might become a little dictator...
...international team of scientists led by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as Washington University in St. Louis recently completed a genetic map of the chimpanzee and discovered that chimp DNA is 96 percent identical to that of humans...
...Because the chimp is so close, its physiology is remarkably similar, so that provides us with a way of looking at ourselves in a different context,” said Robert H. Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, who worked on the project. “And more importantly, in places where the chimp differs from humans in physiology and response to disease, we can use genetic differences to figure out what is going...
This relatively low number of significant variations, which have occurred since chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor six million years ago, leaves almost 99 percent of human DNA identical to the chimp genome...