Adaptive Evolution Coupled with Retrotransposon Exaptation Allowed for the Generation of a Human-Protein-Specific Coding Gene That Promotes Cancer Cell Proliferation and Metastasis... by Spyros I. Papamichos, Dimitrios Margaritis, Ioannis Kotsianidis

“…The incidence of cancer in human is high as compared to chimpanzee. However previous analysis has documented that numerous human cancer-related genes are highly conserved in chimpanzee. …”
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USING VOICE COMMANDS TO OBTAIN EXPRESSIVE STATES FOR ANIMATRONIC STRUCTURES by Marian IONESCU

“…Voice control is applied in order to obtain biomimetic / expressive states through animatronic structures (CHIMPANZEE ALIVE and ELVIS ALIVE), using a interactive protocol with the robotic structure (LOBOT uHand). …”
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A meta-analysis of MHC diversity in Pan troglodytes verus by Christelle Vangenot, Alicia Sanchez‑Mazas

“…Like in humans, the DQ locus of chimpanzees contains two sets of gene pairs: DQA1-DQB1 and DQA2-DQB2. …”
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Structures internes claviculaires chez Pan, Gorilla et Homo. Méthode d’analyse et résultats préliminaires by Jean-Luc Voisin, Antoine Balzeau

“…For a quarter of chimpanzees, this is characterized by an absence of low density structures at the inflexion point of the acromial curvature. …”
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Transposable Elements: No More 'Junk DNA' by Yun-Ji Kim, Jungnam Lee, Kyudong Han

“…In this review, we focus on Alu, L1, human endogenous retrovirus, and short interspersed element/variable number of tandem repeats/Alu (SVA) elements and discuss how they have affected primate genomes, especially the human and chimpanzee genomes, since their divergence.…”
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Human-Specific Endogenous Retroviruses by Anton Buzdin

“…This information is given here in the context of other major genomic changes underlining differences between human and chimpanzee DNAs. Finally, a comprehensive database, is available for download, of human-specific and polymorphic endogenous retroviruses is presented, which encompasses the data on their genomic localization, primary structure, encoded viral genes, human gene neighborhood, transcriptional activity, and methylation status.…”
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1987-2017 : Regard sur l’évolution de l’histoire des origines by Brigitte Senut

“…The development of studies on fossil hominoids has made it possible to better define the state of the characters: whereas the chimpanzee seemed (until recently) to be a "good model" of the common ancestor of great apes and humans, this idea is highly controversial today. …”
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Entre Paris et les Tropiques, le rôle inattendu des Instituts Pasteur dans la naissance de la psychologie animale pendant la période coloniale by Marion Thomas

“…With the help of Calmette, the psychologists Paul Guillaume and Ignace Meyerson in Paris, on the one hand, and the American psychologists Robert Yerkes et Henry Nissen in French Guinea, on the other hand, made the best of the conditions offered by the Pasteur Institutes to study respectively the chimpanzee mind in the laboratory and its behaviour in the wild. …”
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Première observation d’un comportement de Leaf Swallowing chez des chimpanzés vivant en captivité à la Réserve Africaine de Sigean, France by Nathan Cazelles-Durand, Ulrich Maloueki, Lyna Rachid, Marielle Beltrame, Fanny Juillard, Désiré Musuyu-Muganza

“…We report observations of this type of behaviour in a population of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) living in captivity at the African reserve of Sigean (RAS), in France. …”
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The Primate Habituation Programme, Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic: An overview by Terence Fuh Neba, Anna Feistner, Angelique Todd

“…In 2012, DNNP, and its neighbouring NPs, were designated a World Heritage Site, the Sangha Tri-National complex (TNS) – classified as an exceptional priority area for western lowland gorilla and central chimpanzee (Pan t. troglodytes) conservation in the IUCN Regional Action Plan. …”
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The evolution of primate vocal communication: a social route by Alban Lemasson, Camille Coye, Nancy Rebout, Florence Levréro

“…Orang-utan, the most solitary species, preferentially used repeated and isolated calls apparently outside of any vocal interactions. Chimpanzee, the most competitive species displayed a high proportion of overlapping vocalisations. …”
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Dysplasie faciale chez les chimpanzés sauvages de Sebitoli, parc national de Kibale, Ouganda : approches éthologiques, ethnographiques et agronomiques by Régine Gross, Francis Gumisiriza, Bernard T Kiremire, Andrew Seguya, Sabrina Krief

“…Des observations de type ''focal sampling'' d'une et dix minutes ainsi que des observations de type ''scan sampling'' toutes les minutes ont été effectuées sur les chimpanzés sauvages (27 individus dont 8 atteints de dysplasie faciale) en cours d'habituation par le « Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project » dirigée par S. Krief. Afin de tester l'hypothèse d'une origine de la malformation liée à la pollution environnementale, des entretiens ont été effectués auprès d'agriculteurs cultivant du maïs et/ou du thé à la bordure du parc. …”
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Le voisinage entre hommes, forêt et les chimpanzés : point de vue depuis le territoire des villageois, à l’extérieur du Parc National de Kibale by Sarah Bortolamiol, Marianne Cohen, Andrew Seguya, Richard Dumez, Sabrina Krief

“…La zone d’étude de Sebitoli, située à l’extrémité nord du parc national de Kibale (Ouganda) est circonscrite dans une poche de forêt de 25 km² où une communauté de chimpanzés est en cours d’habituation depuis 2008 par l’équipe du Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project (SCP). Autour du territoire des chimpanzés, les territoires des hommes - dont la densité peut atteindre 335 habitants/km² - encerclent la forêt. …”
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Heterologous cAd3-Ebola and MVA-EbolaZ vaccines are safe and immunogenic in US and Uganda phase 1/1b trials by Myra Happe, Amelia R. Hofstetter, Jing Wang, Galina V. Yamshchikov, LaSonji A. Holman, Laura Novik, Larisa Strom, Francis Kiweewa, Salim Wakabi, Monica Millard, Colleen F. Kelley, Sarah Kabbani, Srilatha Edupuganti, Allison Beck, Florence Kaltovich, Tamar Murray, Susanna Tsukerman, Derick Carr, Carl Ashman, Daphne A. Stanley, Aurélie Ploquin, Robert T. Bailer, Richard Schwartz, Fatim Cham, Allan Tindikahwa, Zonghui Hu, Ingelise J. Gordon, Nadine Rouphael, Katherine V. Houser, Emily E. Coates, Barney S. Graham, Richard A. Koup, John R. Mascola, Nancy J. Sullivan, Merlin L. Robb, Julie A. Ake, Kirsten E. Lyke, Mark J. Mulligan, Julie E. Ledgerwood, Hannah Kibuuka, the VRC 208 and RV 422 study team

“…We investigated the safety and immunogenicity of a heterologous prime-boost regimen involving a chimpanzee adenovirus 3 vectored Ebola vaccine [either monovalent (cAd3-EBOZ) or bivalent (cAd3-EBO)] prime followed by a recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara EBOV vaccine (MVA-EbolaZ) boost in two phase 1/1b randomized open-label clinical trials in healthy adults in the United States (US) and Uganda (UG). …”
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Knuckle-walking and behavioural flexibility in great apes by Emily LR Tarrega-Saunders, Charlotte King, Alice M Roberts, Susannah KS Thorpe

“…Extended wrist postures during knuckle-walking in chimpanzees compared with columnar wrist postures in gorillas were associated with chimpanzees’ more arboreal lifestyle, and are supposedly constrained by fundamental differences in carpal morphology. …”
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Plasmodium chez les grands singes africains by Linda Duval

“…Thus, a large molecular diversity of Plasmodium infecting chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos in Africa was recently discovered. …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees. They attract much attention from anthropologists who want to better understand our primate origins and more recently from the public because of their remarkable behavior and matriarchal social system. …”
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Rôle des environnements dans les origines et l’évolution de la bipédie chez les hominidés : exemple des zones boisées sèches de l’Afrique by Brigitte Senut

“…These precursors, different from chimpanzees and humans in their anatomy and proportions, climbed trees in different ways, probably without a hallux as divergent as that of chimpanzees. …”
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Examining Mammalian facial behavior using Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS) and combinatorics. by Aisha Mahmoud, Lauren Scott, Brittany N Florkiewicz

“…Our study aimed to assess how well the existing literature represents the potential range of facial signals in two previously studied species: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and domesticated cats (Felis silvestris catus). …”
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Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants by Ross Don

“…Comparative cognitive science of humans has tended to overwhelmingly emphasize similarities and differences between humans and other living hominids, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos. In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanatory targets, particularly where cultural evolution is concerned. …”
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