LIVING LINKS CENTER FOR STUDY OF APE & HUMAN EVOLUTION

生活链接类人猿研究中心

• 批准号: 8357380
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 金额: $ 3.29万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8357380
• 关键词: Academy; Anatomy; Behavioral; Brain imaging; Chicago; Cognition; Cognitive; Comparative Psychology; Development; Evolution; Fund Raising; Funding; Genomics; Grant; Hominidae; Human; International; Joints; Life; Link; Molecular; Names; National Center for Research Resources; Philanthropic Fund; Pongidae; Primates; Principal Investigator; Publishing; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Science; Scotland; Source; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; base; comparative; cost; operation; response; symposium

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. 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.

这个子项目是许多利用资源的研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持 子项目的主要研究者可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括其他NIH来源。 列出的子项目总成本可能 代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 而不是由NCRR赠款提供给子项目或子项目工作人员的直接资金。 生活链接中心是一个研究和教育中心，用于研究猿和人类进化，使用行为，认知，解剖和分子方法。LLC的成立是为了应对三个事态发展。 第一个是进化心理学、比较认知学和野外灵长类动物学领域的知识趋同，它们都认为利用现存物种来理解灭绝的原始人类祖先是非常重要的。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相似性和差异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，并为慈善基金筹集科学和殖民地支持提供基础。 过去几年的主要活动包括：1）组织了一次非常成功的关于人类起源的研讨会，吸引了来自埃默里及其他地区的近2，000人; 2）与芝加哥科学院在芝加哥举行的国际会议刚刚出版。 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的中心。