Example sentences for: chimps

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

  • To help us picture these tony chimps, Self's publisher has helpfully supplied cover art showing a low-browed, large-nostriled male creature.

  • They say that a 15 million-year-old fossil of an African ape provides new evidence of a common ancestor of gorillas, chimps, and humans.

  • As the primatologist Frans de Waal has observed, male chimps "seem to live in a hierarchical world with replaceable coalition partners and a single permanent goal: power."

  • Also, a story says chimps may have better language aptitude than previously thought.

  • Primarily examined through the use of G-banding cytogenetic techniques, the human and common chimpanzee karyotypes differ by only 10 euchromatic rearrangements: a telomere fusion between PTR chromosomes 12 and 13, resulting in HSA chromosome 2, and 9 pericentric inversions (HSA 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18) [ 1 2 ] . The predominance of pericentric inversions between chimps and humans highlights their potential importance in the divergence of human from non-human primate species, and provides an opportunity to investigate the mechanism facilitating these rearrangements.


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