Thursday, December 10, 2009

Not about bonobos so much as evolution branches and bird food

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8393443.stm

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Post of a zoological society
http://www.wauwatosanow.com/userstoriessubmitted/73052032.html

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6538016/Fellatio-common-among-fruit-bats-says-research.html

Bats are like bonobos

Thursday, October 08, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/opinion/08thu4.html
Not saying that Ardi is a missing link!!

Person writes about apes and misgivings about evolution evidence.

Sunday, September 06, 2009

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Scientists+claim+orangutans+closer+humans+than+chimps/1966871/story.html

Jeffrey Schwartz and John Grehan:
They propose the theory that orang utans are closer to humans than chimpanzees.

I guess that there is so much junk DNA floating around that chimps might carry a lot of orang utan detail and vice versa. What activates it is a great question.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7187/

This is about Jeremy Taylor's work. It seems that he is saying that although chimpanzees and humans have similarities, that does not mean that we are all that close to them.

Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human

Friday, July 31, 2009

Chimpanzees born to appreciate music
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8176000/8176126.stm

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Conservation space in Congo [DRC??] seems to be growing:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/congo-moves-to-save-bonobos/article798629/

Monday, July 27, 2009

Friday, July 03, 2009

An example of someone using bonobos to make statements about humans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03fri4.html

"Female bonobo chimpanzees have sex with dozens of males to obscure the paternity of offspring and thus stop males from killing infants to get their mothers to stop breastfeeding and become fertile again" ... apparently

Friday, June 19, 2009

There is an academic, Jeffrey Schwartz, who presents the argument that chimpanzees are not the closest ape to humans:
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/06/the_red_ape_resurrected_willi_1.php

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Returning bonobos to the wild - [Duke anthropologist Brian Hare]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090615171523.htm

Saturday, June 06, 2009

The last common ancestor of humans and apes was capable of laughter .. er .. maybe

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/604/1?rss=1

See article
By Virginia MorellScienceNOW Daily News4 June 2009

Also:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090604/tuk-how-laughter-links-humans-with-great-45dbed5.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8083230.stm

Concerns the work of:
zoologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and colleagues.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Kokolopori Reserve article

http://www.sunherald.com/prnewswire/story/1367449.html

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Where the monkey line meets a human-like line:
an alleged species related DIRECTLY to humans, apes and monkeys.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/05/18/Fossil-find-may-be-monkey-human-ancestor/UPI-19881242660948/

So this fossil might not be our great great great great ... great great relative but it might be a sister or niece or aunt or distant cousin of a direct ancestor of us. AND the same kind of 'nearly in the family line' could be said for apes AND for monkeys.
It is rare for a scientist to dig up a fossil and to say that it is a bit like an ape and a bit like a human. Here, we have something even rarer: something a bit like a human, a bit like an ape and a bit like a monkey.

[search news for lemur monkey]

Scepticism:
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013231.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1900057,00.html

Thursday, May 07, 2009

It could do with some tabasco!
Bonobos rate their food.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30266532/

Friday, April 24, 2009

Bonobo gets into public area

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/1158430.html

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Gestures seem to help humans to learn better.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/26/1c26gesture193359-not-so-simple-gesture/