LIVING LINKS CENTER FOR STUDY OF APE & HUMAN EVOLUTION

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 Living Links中心是一个研究和教育中心，研究类人猿和人类进化，使用行为、认知、解剖和分子方法。 有限责任公司是因应三个事态发展而成立的。首先是进化心理学、比较认知和野外灵长类动物学领域围绕利用现存物种了解灭绝的原始人祖先的重要性的智力融合。其次，脑成像和基因组测序技术的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。 有限责任公司利用类人猿群体进行非侵入性比较研究，为科学和群体支持的慈善募捐提供了基础。 过去几年的主要活动是：1)组织了一次关于人类起源的研讨会，取得了巨大成功，吸引了来自埃默里和其他地方的近2000人；2)与芝加哥科学院在芝加哥举行了一次国际会议，该会议刚刚出版。目前，我们正在探索与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的联合行动，爱丁堡动物园正在开设一个同名中心。

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.