Example sentences for: chimpanzees

How can you use “chimpanzees” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We also studied DNA from two chimpanzees, one gorilla and two orang utans.

  • DNA was obtained from cell lines and/or blood from a human (sample ID 02-0056), two unrelated common chimpanzees (sample IDs: NA03450B, NA03448A), two unrelated pygmy chimpanzees (sample IDs: BB501, LB502), and two unrelated gorillas (sample IDs: 9521, 9247).

  • Preuss, who began training as a paleoanthropologist before turning to neuroscience, has been comparing post-mortem human and chimpanzee brains since the mid 1990s, believing that “if we want to understand human brain evolution, we really have to compare humans with chimpanzees, our nearest relatives”, even though chimp brains have been evolving separately from ours for 5–7 million years.

  • Wright is no doubt familiar with the wars of the chimpanzees at Gombe, which are much better interpreted as fights over territory than fights over females.

  • And, actually, Goodall's own data, as synthesized in her magnum opus The Chimpanzees of Gombe , also support the idea that males fight over access to fertile females.


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