Chimpanzees

Supreme Court Grants AG's Request for Review

August 9 , 2007 -- (SANTA FE)---The New Mexico Supreme Court today agreed to review a decision by the state Court of Appeals in a high profile animal cruelty case in southern New Mexico. New Mexico Attorney General Gary King last month asked the Court to examine the lower court’s ruling in the deaths of two chimpanzees and injury to a third chimpanzee at the Alamogordo Primate Facility.    » read more »

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Put a human and a chimpanzee side by side, and it seems obvious which lineage has changed the most since the two diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago. Such apparent physical differences, along with human speech, language and brainpower, have led many people to believe that natural selection has acted in a positive manner on more genes in humans than in chimps.

But new research at the University of Michigan challenges that human-centered view.    » read more »