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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Brian Owens · October 27, 2016 ·

Chimpanzees and their relatives bonobos are closer than we thought. Bonobos seem to have donated genes to chimps at least twice in the roughly two million years since they last shared an ancestor.

The two closely related apes have occasionally interbred in captivity, and bonobos are renowned for their free and easy sex life. But the finding that they interbred in the wild was unexpected. Read more in New Scientist.

New Scientist animal behaviour, bonobos, chimps, genetics, sex

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