Our Chimp Ancestry - Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom

Husband and wife team Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom describe their experiences, from eating termites to battling sweat flies, studying the fascinatingly sophisticated chimpanzees of Fongoli, Africa.

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Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. For more than two decades Lanting has documented wildlife from the Amazon to Antarctica to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history through images that convey a passion for nature and a sense of wonder about our living planet.

Lanting has received top honors from World Press Photo, the title of BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award. Lanting has been honored as a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in London and is a recipient of Sweden’s Lennart Nilsson Award. Prince Bernhard inducted him as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the Netherlands’ highest conservation honor. Lanting Lanting makes his home in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife, Christine Eckstrom, an editor, producer, and former staff writer at National Geographic with whom he collaborates on fieldwork and publishing projects. For further information please see www.lanting.com

Christine Eckstrom is a writer, editor, and videographer. She has collaborated with Frans Lanting for more than 15 years on assignments and fieldwork on every continent. She is the author of Forgotten Edens and a contributing author of 15 books published by the National Geographic Society. The editor of Okavango, Jungles, Penguin, and Eye to Eye, she partners with Frans Lanting to produce books, videos, and other publishing projects from their studio and gallery in Santa Cruz, California. For further information please see www.lanting.com

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[trickmastermonkey]

FACT: Chimps are distant cousins of ours.

The End.

[quinn2469]

We didn't come from apes but all primates share a common ancestor. We can prove this through retroviral DNA. You can only get your retroviral DNA from your ancestors. Humans and all primates share many common retroviral DNA. Thus, since we have similar retroviral DNA and you can only get your retroviral DNA from ancestors, humans and all other primates have a common ancestor.

[rugbyboy198127]

@websnarf i agree with your comments 100% regarding evolution, however you listed homonid species then added 'then finally cro-magnon' - you refer to all homo-sapian as cro-magnon or you believe cro-magnon is a step on of as relative magnitude as the steps in your list (ie: you list them together)... as far as i am aware that is inappropriate and wildly our of context, placing such emphasis on cro-magnon... didn't say you were white supremacist i said much of the work regarding it has an agenda!

[websnarf]

@rugbyboy198127: Why you would project white supremacy upon me is beyond my comprehension. There is a *literature* on Cromagnon man regarding our early research into the evolution of humans. There is no pinnacle of evolution for any organism; evolution doesn't have an end point.

How would you propose someone quickly Google for the Neolithic and Mesolithic cultural shifts as they pertain to human evolution? The single term "Cromagnon" will suffice.

[rugbyboy198127]

@websnarf so you think of cro-magnon as the pinnicle of human evolution or? its the typical white supremacist notion that rather than cro-magnon being just the european adaptation to environment of similar complexity to that of other adaptations around the globe, they always tried to hold up cro-magnon as of specific importance, as though it somehow represents an importent change to mankind, unique and the next step in evolution - total biggoted rubbish i cant believe this is still going on man!

[websnarf]

@rugbyboy198127: I am well aware of the technical problems with even referring to someone as a "Cromagnon". The point is that in researching it FkyGGGG would learn something about the development of Homo sapiens. If you just look up Homo sapiens directly, you aren't necessarily going to learn anything about Human evolution.

[rugbyboy198127]

@websnarf you skip homo-sapian and jump straight to cro-magnon? cro magnon is not a genetic difference comparable to that of the difference between say homo-erectus/homo-sapian/neand­erthal - and it is quite controversial to suggest it - if anything cro-magnon represents a cultural shift in human behaviour, driven by environment - if a particular population group (ie race) develops specific traits ie tallness, is doesn't make them a new sub species of human - much smaller change than that mate...

[rugbyboy198127]

@Baxion5 they argued until very recently that they were completely seporate branch of the human family, of human evolution, they insisted that they had evolved from homo-erectus whom had left africa before homo-sapian, while clearly this is wrong as genetics have proven we are all more or less the same, it wouldn't suprise me if genetics showed that the chinese (mongoloid) we're not only 1-4% neanderthal but also share dna with hoom-erectus to some degree - as you say this may account for 3races