This report provides a longitudinal demographic profile for a small study population of
chimpanzees living in the Gombe National Park of Tanzania, East Africa. The size and …

In recent years, hybridization has gained recognition as an important creative force in
primate evolution. The exchange of genetic material between species provides genetic …

A small group of wild chimpanzees at Bossou, southeastern Guinea, is semi-isolated,
occupying a home-range which is several kilometers from those of other groups. The group …

In the four years since its original description, the taxonomy of the kipunji (Rungwecebus
kipunji), a geographically restricted and critically endangered African monkey, has been the …

Despite ample focus on this endangered species, conservation planning for chimpanzees
residing outside Africa has proven a challenge because of the lack of ancestry information …

In the studies we reported in 2007 and 2009, we made use of the fact that there are greater
genetic differences between chimpanzee subspecies than within them. We reasoned that, if …

Here, we report the sequencing and analysis of eight complete mitochondrial genomes of
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from each of the three established subspecies (P. t …

Abstract Background The current San and Khoe populations are remnant groups of a much
larger and widely dispersed population of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, who had …

Baboons of the genus Papio have colonised wide areas of Africa and parts of the Arabian
Peninsula. Traditionally, 5 phenotypically distinct morphotypes (species) are recognised …

The Western and Eastern species of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei) began
diverging in the mid-Pleistocene, but in a complex pattern with ongoing gene flow following …