In search of the last common ancestor: New findings on wild chimpanzees

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1556, 2010, Pages 3267-3276

  McGrew, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Diet; Last common ancestor; Ranging; Shelter; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; EXTINCTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SHELTER; THERMOREGULATION; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77958045912     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0067     Document Type: Article

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