Saturday, December 26, 2009

Chimps and fire!


We just published a brief article on the Fongoli chimps' interactions with wildfires and implications for understanding this aspect of early hominid evolution. The article can be found in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Here is a link to a couple of news articles about the manuscript:

www.news.iastate.edu/news/2009/dec/wildfires

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1222/2

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/23/chimps-dont-run-from-fire%E2%80%94they-dance-with-it/

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