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Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzeesMartin N Muller
Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:1009-14. 2007..Such aggression can be viewed as a counter-strategy to female attempts at paternity confusion, and a cost of multi-male mating...
Shallow-water habitats as sources of fallback foods for homininsRichard Wrangham
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 140:630-42. 2009..It also raises the possibility that harvesting efficiency in shallow water promoted adaptations for habitual bipedality in early hominins...- Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and war in nomadic hunter-gatherers: evaluating the chimpanzee modelRichard W Wrangham
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Hum Nat 23:5-29. 2012..Whether humans have evolved specific psychological adaptations for war is unknown, but current evidence suggests that the chimpanzee model is an appropriate starting point for analyzing the biological and cultural evolution of warfare... 
Chimpanzees: the culture-zone concept becomes untidyRichard W Wrangham
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Biol 16:R634-5. 2006- Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humansRichard W Wrangham
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Primates 47:14-26. 2006..Chimpanzees had rates of aggression between two and three orders of magnitude higher than humans. These preliminary data support Boehm's hypothesis... - Collective violence: comparisons between youths and chimpanzeesRichard W Wrangham
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1036:233-56. 2004..We therefore view the similarities in aggression between humans and chimpanzees that we review here as being adaptive responses to local conditions, predicated on an inherent male concern for social status... - 'Cooking as a biological trait'Richard Wrangham
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 136:35-46. 2003..Further investigation is therefore needed of the ways in which human digestive physiology is constrained by the need for food of relatively high caloric density compared to other great apes... - Sexual mimicry in hyenasMartin N Muller
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Q Rev Biol 77:3-16. 2002..Current data suggest that if sexual mimicry is important, its effects are strongest among infants... - Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzeesVictoria Wobber
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:12457-62. 2010..In turn, common selection pressures in human evolution may have acted on the psychology and the endocrinology of our competitive behavior... - Great apes prefer cooked foodVictoria Wobber
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 55:340-8. 2008..The results, therefore, challenge the hypothesis that the control of fire preceded cooking by a significant period... - Bonobos exhibit delayed development of social behavior and cognition relative to chimpanzeesVictoria Wobber
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Biol 20:226-30. 2010..The results suggest that these social and cognitive differences between two closely related species result from evolutionary changes in brain development... - The rise of the hominids as an adaptive shift in fallback foods: plant underground storage organs (USOs) and australopith originsGreg Laden
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, 301 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Hum Evol 49:482-98. 2005..Our hypothesis implicates fallback foods as a critical limiting factor with far-reaching evolutionary effects. This complements the more common focus on adaptations to preferred foods, such as fruit and meat, in hominid evolution... - Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domesticationBrian Hare
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Biol 15:226-30. 2005.... - Cooking and the human commitment to a high-quality dietR N Carmody
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 74:427-34. 2009..Additional experimental work is needed to help discriminate the relative contributions of cooking, meat eating, and other innovations such as nonthermal food processing in supporting the human transition toward dietary quality... - Toshisada Nishida's contributions to primatologyJohn C Mitani
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Primates 47:2-5. 2006 - No evidence of short-term exchange of meat for sex among chimpanzeesIan C Gilby
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA
J Hum Evol 59:44-53. 2010.... - Skeletal pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, UgandaMelinda L Carter
Department of Anatomy, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 135:389-403. 2008..Much of the major skeletal trauma in the Kibale skeletons was attributable to falls, although other pathologies were noted as well, including apparent injuries from snares, degenerative arthritis, and minor congenital abnormalities... - Island rules cannot be brokenMeike Kohler
Trends Ecol Evol 23:6-7; author reply 8-9. 2008 - Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopauseMelissa Emery Thompson
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Curr Biol 17:2150-6. 2007..Thus, in contrast to recent claims, we find no evidence that menopause is a typical characteristic of chimpanzee life histories... - Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolutionHerman Pontzer
50A Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 46:317-35. 2004..These analyses are relevant to anatomical comparisons with living and extinct hominoids... - Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, UgandaMelissa Emery Thompson
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 135:171-81. 2008..Chimpanzees appear to share with humans a reproductive system that is primed to respond to proximate levels of energy acquisition... - SIVcpz in wild chimpanzeesMario L Santiago
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-6024, USA
Science 295:465. 2002 - Male chimpanzees prefer mating with old femalesMartin N Muller
Department of Anthropology, Boston University, 232 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Curr Biol 16:2234-8. 2006..Given that the human lineage evolved from a chimpanzee-like ancestor, they indicate that male preference for youth is a derived human feature, likely adapted from a tendency to form unusually long term mating bonds... - Testosterone and energetics in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)Martin N Muller
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Primatol 66:119-30. 2005..They also suggest that short-term variations in T levels in male hominoids are more likely to be explained by social factors than by energetic ones... - Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestionScott M Boback
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 148:651-6. 2007..4%. These results support the hypothesis that the consumption of cooked meat provides an energetic benefit over the consumption of raw meat... - Hardness of cercopithecine foods: implications for the critical function of enamel thickness in exploiting fallback foodsJoanna E Lambert
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 125:363-8. 2004..albigena during this period. We suggest that it is the difference in the mechanical properties of fallback foods during critical periods that may have served as the selective pressure for thick enamel in L. albigena... - Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)Mario L Santiago
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Virol 77:7545-62. 2003..The basis for the wide variability in SIVcpz infection rates in east African apes and the important question of SIVcpz prevalence in west central African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) remain to be elucidated... - Triterpenoid saponin anthranilates from Albizia grandibracteata leaves ingested by primates in UgandaSabrina Krief
Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, FRE CNRS 2715, IFR 53 Biomolecules, Reims, France
J Nat Prod 68:897-903. 2005..This is the first report of such ester saponins in dicotyledonous plants. Studies of the primate diet may provide a useful method for finding naturally occurring compounds of medicinal significance... - Amplification of a complete simian immunodeficiency virus genome from fecal RNA of a wild chimpanzeeMario L Santiago
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Virol 77:2233-42. 2003.... - Bioactive properties of plant species ingested by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Kibale National Park, UgandaSabrina Krief
ICSN, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
Am J Primatol 68:51-71. 2006.... - Identification of a hepatitis B virus genome in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi) from East Africa indicates a wide geographical dispersion among equatorial African primatesJean Pierre Vartanian
Unite de Retrovirologie Moleculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Virol 76:11155-8. 2002..An entire hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome was amplified and sequenced from samples taken from one animal. This indicates that HBV is distributed across the entire range of chimpanzee habitats... - The genetic signature of sex-biased migration in patrilocal chimpanzees and humansKevin E Langergraber
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e973. 2007..The chimpanzee data we present here thus provide a valuable comparative benchmark of the patterns of mtDNA and NRY variation to be expected in a society with extremely female-biased dispersal... - Male chimpanzees exchange political support for mating opportunitiesKimberly G Duffy
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Curr Biol 17:R586-7. 2007..Here we report that the highest-ranking (alpha) male in one well-studied community of chimpanzees rewarded his allies by allowing them preferential access to mates...