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You are invited to Cardiff Volunteering's meet n mingle!
How it works:
Step One: 'buy' a free ticket
Step Two: On the day 15 minutes before the start time you will be sent a meetings link and the link to the online volunteering
Step Three: Volunteer away and make and meet new friends.
This session involves the pan African programme:
The Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf), based out of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthroplogy in Leipzig, Germany, aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary drivers that have contributed to the behavioral and cultural diversity of chimpanzees. For this, the program has been collecting systematic ecological, social, demographic and behavioral data at 40 chimpanzee populations spread out over their whole natural range.
You can watch videos to help us learn about chimps and humans.
For this project, the pan African programme has collected nearly 7,000 hours of footage, reflecting various chimpanzee habitats, from camera traps in 15 countries across Africa. (We are also collecting a wide variety of organic samples from these sites, such as feces, hair, and plant matter, and information on the ecology and environment of each habitat.) By scanning the videos from these traps and identifying the types of species and activity that you see, you’ll help us to understand the lives of these apes—their behaviors, relationships, and environments—and to extrapolate new ideas about human origins.
Many theories tie human evolution to meat-eating and tool use.
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It is thought that a major leap in the mental, physical, and cultural development of Homo sapiens was associated with increases in hunting, meat-eating, and the use of tools. We sometimes see similar human-like behaviors appear among diverse populations of today’s wild chimpanzees. If we study when, where, and how such behavior is more prominent, we can get a better idea of the evolutionary scenarios that led to the rise of our species.
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