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Fossils of early humans are rare, but those of chimpanzees have been absent from the fossil record altogether, until now. In this week’s Nature, Sally McBrearty and Nina Jablonski describe the first report of fossils of a chimp. The fossils are modest – just three teeth – but they have the potential to change perceived wisdom about human evolution.
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Runway Technology created a mosaic for the inside cover of NatureÂ’s special chimpanzee issue, which is reminiscent of the mosaic on the cover of the issue that contained the human genome in 2001. The photo is part of photographer Kevin LangergraberÂ’s ongoing study of how genetic relatedness effects patterns of affiliation and cooperation in wild chimpanzees.
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Nature is publishing the genome of the chimpanzee in its Sept. 1 issue. It will also publish research comparing chimp and human DNA, an analysis of the first chimp fossil and the story of the past century of chimp studies.
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Clint, whose genome was deciphered and published in Nature by an international team of researchers, died unexpectedly in January at the age of 24 at the research center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was born and raised.
