primates – Creation Fact File

Promoter Regions Explain Ape Human Difference

Promoter regions explain ape human difference, reports an article in ScienceNOW 13 August 2007. Although chimp and human genes are claimed to be 99 percent the same you don’t have to be a biologist to see that chimps and humans are very different. Way back in 1975 Allan Wilson of the University of Wisconsin suggested […]

Granting Apes Human Rights

Granting apes human rights reported in Spain Herald: “The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” The PSOE’s justification is […]

Gorilla-Like Jaw Casts Doubt on Human Ancestor

Gorilla-like jaw casts doubt on human ancestor, according to a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, p6568, 17 April 2007. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have studied the jaw of a recently discovered Australopithecus afarensis fossil and found that it “closely matches that of gorillas”. They were surprised at this […]

Gorilla Genome Sequenced

Gorilla genome sequenced according to reports in BBC News, Biology News Net, Nature News and ScienceDaily 7 March 2012. An international group of researchers has sequenced the genome of a western lowland gorilla and compared it with partial genomes of two other western lowland gorillas and one eastern lowland gorilla. They also compared a large […]

Chimp Religion

Religion may have developed from primitive behaviour evident in chimpanzees and apes, scientists claim, according to Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia, 22 February 2000. Great ape expert, Professor Robert Sussman, said that if chimpanzees could write there would be a “chimp bible”. He added “the Ten Commandments aren’t really talking about God. They are talking about […]

Monkeys Make Stone Tools

Monkeys make stone tools, according to reports in Nature News and ScienceDaily 19 October 2016 and Nature (2016) doi:10.1038/nature20112, published online 19 October 2016. Sharp edged stone flakes with a distinctive conchoidal fracture are traditionally considered evidence of human or hominid stone tool production. Researchers from the University of Oxford, University College London and University […]