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Chimpanzees can also die from AIDS
Research reports published in the British Journal of Nature show that chimpanzees can also die from AIDS in monkeys just like AIDS in humans.
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Love makes children smarter
For some strange reason, it is always necessary to remind us that primates like us desperately need care.
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Toddlers are smarter than primates
Your toddler is even smarter than an adult chimpanzee, at least in some ways, the researchers claim.
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How does HIV spread to people?
HIV, the AIDS virus (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), a disease that has killed about 25 million people worldwide in the past 25 years, may be one of the most carefu…
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HIV 'relatives' cause pandemic in African monkeys
A virus that is related to HIV is spreading on a large scale in African gorillas. The culprit infecting them could be chimpanzees, the French scientists announced.
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The human brain continues to evolve
Humans continue to evolve and the fastest evolutionary genes are involved in brain development. It is confirmed by a group of US researchers from the University of Calif…
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HIV originates from wild chimpanzees
For the first time, scientists found the source of the closest relative virus to HIV - SIV virus - it is a wild chimp. The finding confirmed the hypothesis that the wild…
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What genetic variation makes our species unique?
This generation follows the other generation, anthropologists always looking for ways to discover what made us human. The famous classical painter Louis Leakey thinks th…