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The Chimpanzee Genome
Scientists have published the first analysis of the genome of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. The scientific journal, Nature, has a complete issue dedicated to this scientific milestone.
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Jane
Goodall Institute
This is the official web site of the Jane Goodall Institute
whose mission is to advance the power of individuals to take
informed and compassionate action to improve the environment
for all living things. With Dr. Jane Goodall's words and example
as guiding principles, the Institute inspires hope for a brighter
future.
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Leakey
Foundation
A nonprofit organization committed to increasing scientific
knowledge and public understanding of human origins and evolution.
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Chimpanzee
Cultures
This website gives access to an online database that describes
the cultural variations in chimpanzee behaviour, and shows behaviour
distributions across the long-term study sites in Africa.
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Demonic
Males
Chapter One of "Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of
Human Violence," by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.
Wrangham was a student at Gombe and uses examples from Gombe
chimps in the book; Peterson is also the co-author (with Jane
Goodall) of "Visions of Caliban." Warning -- only
chapter One is online. To see the rest, you'll have to buy the
book.
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Electronic
Zoo / NetVet - Primate Page
Many links to other sites about primates.
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Gombe
40
A website about the chimpanzees of Gombe created by the Canadian
Discovery Channel.
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Great
Ape Survey Report
A report from the Human Evolution Studies department at Kyoto
University in Japan on the The Current Condition of Great
Apes in the Natural Environment.
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Living
Links
The Living Links Center specializes in comparisons of the social
life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics
of apes and humans.
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Primate
Information Net
Lots of primate information from the Wisconsin Regional Primate
Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Scientific
American Frontiers "Chimps R Us"
A website for the April 2001 episode on chimpanzees produced
for the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers.
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Curt
Busse
This is a link to Curt Busse's photos taken in 1974 at Gombe.
Curt was an undergraduate from Stanford who studied adult males
and followed Figan for 50 days with Dave Riss.
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