Chimpanzee

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Africa with chimpanzee for a half of a century? Well I choose to live with the chimpanzees for 50 years. Introduction and Background info (birthplace, birthdate, any relevant childhood info, relevant relationship info, etc.): My name is Valerie Jane Morris- Goodall I was born April 3 1934 in London. When I was a little girl I would always read "The Story of Dr. Doolittle" after that I new I wanted to live in Africa. Its very easy to tell…

Evidence of Tool Use by Early Hominins Tool use has been around for ages we all know this because we are surrounded by it every day, but how long has tool use in human history been at play? There is evidence of early hominids making and using stone tools that date back millions of years ago. These tools are the earliest known signs of modifying natural materials for use as a tool. In this article we will travel back to the early stages of human evolution to date when we began to use objects to…

An example of primates who show a high level of complexity in linguistics are the East African Vervet monkeys. East African Vervet monkeys have been found to use complex vocal sounds for warning others in their group of predators (Zuberbuhler 2005:2). They can only think about feeding themselves and to run from predators to survive and they use various vocal acoustics and physiological movements in order to communicate danger (Zuberbuhler 2005:3). Scientists believe these studies may lead us…

pinpointing how pubic lice developed. However, historical and archaeological evidence demonstrate that crab louse evolved from the similar gorilla louse, Pthirus gorillae (BioMed Central, 2009). Through genetic research on the mitochondrial genome of the chimpanzee louse, researchers found that a single mini-chromosome had fragmented into three sections in the lineage of ectoparasites, which includes head lice, body lice, and pubic lice about 3.3 million years ago (Herd, Barker, Shao, 2015).…

would mean that aging the Turkana Boy would depend on what age system one is going by. After reviewing the information gathered from Turkana Boy, it was understood that Turkana Boy’s growth would not reflect that of a modern human, but more of a chimpanzee counterpart. This also adds to the theory of evolution, suggesting that while similarities between the two, bring modern humans and primates closer than previously known. (Townsley) Turkana Boy was closely resembled to humans, structure wise.…

Inner & Brandon C. Wheeler, within the chimpanzee community, killing occurs in a distinctive manner and is compared to the same behavior seen in humans conflicts. Such groups of males along with their families and others would raid other neighbor communities. They would kill everyone and return…

Jane Goodall is universally known as one of the most prominent naturalist alive today. According to Anderson, Jane Goodall is a pioneer in the field study of chimpanzees (780). She is also well known as the mother of the chimps. Unfortunately, the public often tends to recognize her accomplishments related to her active running for the wellbeing of the chimps. However, her trademarks pertain to loving, caring, and embracing also applies to her strong conviction to corroborate the underprivileged…

In the mid 1930’s, in London, England, a small girl received a stuffed Chimpanzee from her father, to commemorate the birth of a chimpanzee in captivity at the London Zoo, sparking her ambition of embarking on a career observing animals in the wild. Although at the time this was a strange ambition for a girl, she nonetheless achieved her dream, and changed the world in the process... Jane Goodall is a well renowned British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is also a prominent…

Human Evolution For many years people have wondered how the human evolution started and why are we different from other species. Science brings us to new knowledge of how humans evolved in this world and the transition of apes to humans. The Human family tree starts from the Ardipithecus groups about 6 million years ago, the next one is Australopithecus group is about 4 million ago, the third one is paratroops group is about 3 million years ago and the last one is the homo groups is…

species in four different genera groups; Pongo, Gorilla, Pan and Homo. Within Pongo genera, you have the Bornean & Sumatran Orangutan; Within the Gorilla genera, you have the Western & Eastern Gorilla; Within the Pan genera, you have the Common Chimpanzee & Bonobos; and Within Homo, you have Sapiens. Bonobos and chimpanzees are considered the only two classified in the Pan genera and one of the closest resembling living cousins to Homo sapiens (humans) that we know…