LIVING LINKS CENTER FOR STUDY OF APE & HUMAN EVOLUTION

生活链接中心是一个研究和教育中心， 研究猿和人类进化，使用行为，认知， 解剖学和分子学方法。 LLC成立于1997年， 应对三个发展。 第一个是知识分子 进化心理学领域的融合，比较 认知，以及野外灵长类动物学， 物种来了解灭绝的原始人类祖先。 第二，技术性 脑成像和基因组测序的发展提供了新的 非侵入性方法来研究 类人猿和人类。 最后是耶基斯地区灵长类动物 研究中心开始远离生物医学研究， 猿类 耶基斯的200多只类人猿没有被利用 有效地进行比较研究。 LLC的成立是为了利用 为该群体的非侵入性比较研究提供依据 为科学和殖民地筹集慈善资金 支持. 对有限责任公司和该中心结构的需求不断增长 在比利弗莱教务长和 Frans de Waal、Melvin Konner教授和主任托马斯因塞尔博士 Yerkes中心 1997年3月，在一次会议上， 1997年5月，与埃默里大学的管理层进行了讨论， 耶基斯科学顾问委员会，一个中心的概念， 耶基斯的比较研究受到热烈欢迎。 所述LLC 1997年9月， 教务长和负责卫生事务的执行副总裁 博士 F. DeWaal是LLC董事。

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 1997 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. And finally, the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center began a move away from biomedical research with great apes. The Yerkes colony of over 200 great apes had not been utilized effectively for comparative studies. The LLC was formed to utilize this colony in non-invasive comparative research and to provide a base for philanthropic fund raising for both scienti fic and colony support. The need for the LLC and the structure for this Center grew out of a series of meetings between Provost Billy Frye, Professor Frans de Waal, Professor Melvin Konner, and Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the Yerkes Center. In a March, 1997 meeting with the senior administration of Emory University and in May, 1997, discussions with the Yerkes Board of Scientific Advisors, the concept of a center for comparative studies at Yerkes was received enthusiastically. The LLC was launched in September, 1997 with joint support from the Office of the Provost and the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs. Dr. F. deWaal is LLC Director.