Gorilla gorilla

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A monoclonal antibody reactive with a second epitope of the 67,000-dalton human T cell antigen. 
  • Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes. 
  • Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates. 
  • All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality. 
  • All great ape species follow gaze to distant locations and around barriers. 
  • An early cell shape transition drives evolutionary expansion of the human forebrain. 
  • An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas. 
  • Ancestral population genomics: the coalescent hidden Markov model approach. 
  • Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. 
  • Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? 
  • Effects of ontogeny and sexual dimorphism on scapula morphology in the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei). 
  • Emergence of the keratinocyte growth factor multigene family during the great ape radiation. 
  • Evaluating Chromatin Accessibility Differences Across Multiple Primate Species Using a Joint Modeling Approach. 
  • FOXP2 variation in great ape populations offers insight into the evolution of communication skills. 
  • Fiber-type phenotype of the jaw-closing muscles in Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Pan paniscus: A test of the Frequent Recruitment Hypothesis. 
  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of keratinocyte growth factor gene amplification and dispersion in evolution of great apes and humans. 
  • Gestural communication in young gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): gestural repertoire, learning, and use. 
  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history. 
  • Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history. 
  • Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality. 
  • Neutralization properties of simian immunodeficiency viruses infecting chimpanzees and gorillas. 
  • Ontogenetic changes to metacarpal trabecular bone structure in mountain and western lowland gorillas. 
  • Patterns of mandibular variation in Pan and Gorilla and implications for African ape taxonomy. 
  • Population genetic and phylogenetic evidence for positive selection on regulatory mutations at the factor VII locus in humans. 
  • Potential arms race in the coevolution of primates and angiosperms: brazzein sweet proteins and gorilla taste receptors. 
  • Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. 
  • Reaching around barriers: the performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old children. 
  • Relative growth, ontogeny, and sexual dimorphism in gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla and G. g. beringei): evolutionary and ecological considerations. 
  • Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. 
  • Scapula form and biomechanics in gorillas. 
  • Size and shape dimorphism in great ape mandibles and implications for fossil species recognition. 
  • The Time Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes. 
  • The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. 
  • The foot of Homo naledi. 
  • The functional consequences of genetic variation on tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) expression 
  • The hand of Homo naledi. 
  • The hypoglossal canal and the origin of human vocal behavior. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology