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2008 Leaky Prize
11.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The Leakey Prize was established in 1990 to reward intellectual achievement and express appreciation for research performed with courage and perseverance in the fields of ape and human evolution. The intention of the award is to honor a scientist for achievement transcending the boundaries of his or her discipline and linking widely differing branches of [...]
Virunga in trouble
10.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

On October 26th, rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo overtook the headquarters of Virunga National Park, home to the last of the world’s wild mountain gorillas. Many researchers, rangers and civilians have fled the area for safety, and no effective action has been taken by the UN “peacekeepers.”

[Video from National Geographic]
If you haven’t had [...]
Which hand is right? Mouse lemurs and the evolution of handedness
09.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Although certainly not the most invested-in of questions in the quest for uncovering primate origins, the understanding of manual lateralization has certainly proved to be interesting (and, arguably, important). As are many topics in primate origins research, the evolutionary path of manual lateralization (handedness, or right versus left handed) is not clear. Many attempts have [...]
Great apes prefer Burger King: The food, the food, the food is on fire.
08.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

An interesting article in this month’s issue of the Journal of Human Evolution begs the question of whether great apes prefer cooked, or raw, food. Of course, the answer in and of itself isn’t what these anthropologists are after, no… it’s ALWAYS about the humans… stupid, if you ask me (but you probably didn’t, and [...]
Frontal fusion
07.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

This is the first installment of my primate evolution research ’series’. Because I understand that not everybody knows a great deal about primates, especially their evolution, and even more generally the vocabulary of evolutionary biologists, I will attempt to make this as digestible as I can (and hopefully interesting!).
The article I’m focusing on in this [...]
Kinji Imanishi (60 years of primatology in Japan)
07.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Head over to Primatology.net today to check out their post on Kinji Imanishi and the origins of primatology in Japan. You can find the blog entry here. Also, check out the Kinji Imanishi Digital Archive, which keeps an archive of all of Imanishi’s unpublished work (and trust me, there’s a lot of it).