Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Hammerschmiede discoveries “highlight how much we don’t know about the evolution of the great ape and human family, and of other primates, during the Miocene in Europe,” Almécija says.

They also have the greatest number of segmental duplications in comparison to the African great apes. Chimps, bonobos and gorillas, but not siamangs, have more segmental duplications than humans and ...

This cognitive mechanism is thought to be one of the bases for the evolution of human language, forming both how people think about events and structure speech. To find out if great apes can ...

For example, the evolution of much smaller but fully functional ... a number of diseases that affect only people. In examining great ape genetic diversity, the researchers looked for genomic ...

"This is a milestone for comparative genomic studies that allows us to appreciate the evolution of the genome ... the two sex chromosomes of living great ape species, both published in Nature ...

While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered ...

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See All Key Ideas Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these ...