Taliban gunmen shoot and wound schoolgirl

[sakuraberries]

(Reuters) - Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded

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[natyanayaki]

Bonobos, once's called "pygmy chimpanzees," were thought to have been a sub-species of the chimpanzee. But we now know that they are an entirely different species and we are equally related to them as we are chimpanzees (and recent findings indicate that we share DNA with bonobos that they don't share with chimpanzees, and we share DNA with chimpanzees that they don't share with bonobos).

What I was getting at is that chimpanzees are extremely patriarchal, and extremely violent species and are thought to be the only species other than humans to have extremely organized war between communities. Bonobos, on the other hand, are matrilineal/matriarchal and based on most evidence tend to solve conflicts with love rather than war/violence/aggression. And by love, I mean love, as in sex, as in orgies, as in it doesn't matter how many individuals are involved, the sexes of the individuals or the positions.

Sorry, I'm just really obsessed with animals species, well animals other than humans because humans often gross me out (other species do too, but humans more so for some reason).

[cornhobble]

oh, huh. That's interesting, I didn't know that. Bonobos obviously live the good life.

[maladaptive]

I thought bonobos were our closest match? That's what I learned in anthro 101 in 2005, so seven years out-of-date, science may have found we share more with chimps than previously thought.

[natyanayaki]

They hadn't looked into the bonobo genome back then (well, the study might have been going on, but the actual finding were published in the peer-reviewed journal earlier this year).

I believe, because of how much primatologists and anthropologists love bonobos, for a long time many wanted humans to be slightly more closely related to bonobos than chimpanzees and would find behavioral reasons for that opinion.

Based on what I read, at times it seems that humans are more closely related to bonobos, and at other times it seems that humans are more closely related to chimpanzees but it seems that it might be due to variation on the individual level. Usually it seems that we're slightly more closely related to chimpanzees, but most believe that's more to do with the larger population size of chimpanzees (and I think they're more adaptable/slightly less specified). I think most agree that the ancestors of humans split from the bonobo+chimpanzee ancestor about 4-7 million years ago (so we should be about equidistantly related to each) and bonobos and chimpanzees split from each other about 1 million years ago.