From the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University::

kanyawara chimpanzee blog
coming from Kibale Forest in Uganda

Studying primate behavior at Harvard


While this page is still under construction you may visit the personal websites of some of the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Richard Wrangham's research group:

:: Ian Gilby
:: Melissa Emery Thompson
:: Meg Crofoot
:: Alexander Georgiev
@ HARVARD

:: Kanyawara chimp blog mainpage
:: This blog, the chimps & Ian
:: Chimp files
:: Biological Anthropology official website

More on Uganda

:: Kibale Forest, NP
:: Uganda Wildlife Education Centre
:: Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
:: Uganda country profile
:: Uganda Wildlife Authority
:: TrekEarth: Ugandan photos


Conservation

:: The Great Ape World Heritage Species Project
:: Priorities for Great Ape Conservation: Presentation at the 2005 UNEP meeting in the DRC.
:: The Status of Chimpanzees in Uganda: Wildlife Conservation Society Report 2003.

Learn about chimpanzees

:: Discover Chimpanzees: More about the animals in Gombe, Tanzania.
:: 3chimps: Hominoid Psychology Research Group
:: Chimpanzee Cultures: Database on cultural variations in chimpanzee behavior.
:: Chimp week (BBC): the Gombe story on TV

Kasiisi School Building Project

In partnership with the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, this non-profit organization supports conservation education in primary schools.

Find out more about the work that goes on in rural Uganda near Kibale National Park.
 

 

On the web

 

You can also read through popular articles that discuss some of the work, originated at the Department of Anthropology:

Evolution of Cooking

:: Cooking up quite a story: Ape, human theory causes evolutionary indigestion (Harvard Gazette)

:: The Evolution of Cooking: A talk with Richard Wrangham.

:: You are what you cook (The Guardian, 1999): Evolution changed when women discovered that the way to a man's brain is through his stomach.

:: BBC Science & Nature: Hot Topics - The Science of cooking

 

Demonic male hypothesis

:: Going ape: When it comes to the study of warfare, primatology has never commanded much respect. Maybe it's time it did (Boston Phoenix, 2002)

:: BBC Horizon - The Demonic Ape: One-hour documentary looking at chimpanzee violence and the Demonic Male Hypothesis.

:: BBC Wildlife Magazine - Chimps Behaving Badly: Popular article discussing the Demonic Male Hypothesis.

:: Apes of war... is it in our genes? (Telegraph, 2004)

 

Others

:: Chimpanzee Behaviors Surprise Scientists (Harvard Gazette)

:: The accidental 'best friend' - Domesticated foxes spontaneously read human gestures (Harvard Gazette)

 

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