LIVING LINKS CENTER FOR STUDY OF APE & HUMAN EVOLUTION

生活链接类人猿研究中心

• 批准号: 8172307
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8172307
• 关键词: Academy; Anatomy; Behavioral; Brain imaging; Chicago; Cognition; Cognitive; Comparative Psychology; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Development; Evolution; Fund Raising; Funding; Genomics; Grant; Hominidae; Human; Institution; International; Joints; Life; Link; Molecular; Names; Philanthropic Fund; Pongidae; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Science; Scotland; Source; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; base; comparative; operation; response; symposium

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The Living Links Center is a research and educational center for the study of ape and human evolution, using behavioral, cognitive, anatomic, and molecular approaches. The LLC was formed in response to three developments. The first was the intellectual convergence of the fields of evolutionary psychology, comparative cognition, and field primatology around the importance of using extant species to understand extinct hominid ancestors. Second, technical developments in brain imaging and genomic sequencing provided new non-invasive approaches to study similarities and differences between great apes and humans. The LLC utilizes an ape colony in non-invasive comparative research and provides a base for philanthropic fund raising for both scientific and colony support. Major activities over the past years have been 1) organization of a hugely successful symposium on human origins that drew nearly 2,000 people from Emory and beyond and 2) an international conference with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, in Chicago that has just been turned into a published volume. Currently, we are exploring a joint operation with St. Andrews University, in Scotland, where a center with the same name is being opened at the Edinburgh Zoo.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目及 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 Living Links 中心是一个研究和教育中心，利用行为、认知、解剖和分子方法研究猿和人类进化。 LLC 的成立是为了响应三项发展。第一个是进化心理学、比较认知和野外灵长类动物学领域的知识融合，围绕着利用现存物种来了解灭绝的原始人类祖先的重要性。其次，脑成像和基因组测序的技术发展为研究类人猿和人类之间的异同提供了新的非侵入性方法。 该有限责任公司利用猿群进行非侵入性比较研究，并为科学和群体支持的慈善资金筹集提供基础。 过去几年的主要活动是 1) 组织了一次非常成功的人类起源研讨会，吸引了来自埃默里大学及其他地区的近 2,000 人参加；2) 与芝加哥科学院在芝加哥举行的国际会议，该会议刚刚变成了出版卷。目前，我们正在探索与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学合作，并在爱丁堡动物园开设一个同名中心。