Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great apes, ...

bonobo, human, gorilla, and two orangutan species (from top to bottom), and illustrations of representative chromosomes (right) with canonical helical and non-B DNA. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.

Townsend notes that nontrivial compositionality in bonobos is orders of magnitude less complex than what we see in human language. Still, he argues, it represents “another layer chipped away ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to ...

A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans ... For example, around 40% of the centromeres in bonobos decreased in size by about 300 times, which happened at most one million years ...

But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99 percent of our DNA, beg to differ. Bonobos are great apes that live in female-dominated societies, a relative rarity among mammals, especially in ...

The study has been published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. The researchers studied 40 bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 50 chimpanzees ...