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==Etymology== [[File:Yousaf et al. 2021 Fig.1.svg|thumb|Taxnomic tree of apes, based on genome sequencing by The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. Figure from Yousaf et al. 2021,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yousaf|first1=Aisha|last2=Liu|first2=Junfeng|last3=Ye|first3=Sicheng|last4=Chen|first4=Hua|date=2021|title=Current Progress in Evolutionary Comparative Genomics of Great Apes|journal=Frontiers in Genetics|volume=12|pages=1436|doi=10.3389/fgene.2021.657468| pmc=8385753 |pmid=34456962|issn=1664-8021|doi-access=free}}</ref> adapted from Prado-Martinez et al. 2013.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Prado-Martinez|first1=Javier|last2=Sudmant|first2=Peter H.|last3=Kidd|first3=Jeffrey M.|last4=Li|first4=Heng|last5=Kelley|first5=Joanna L.|last6=Lorente-Galdos|first6=Belen|last7=Veeramah|first7=Krishna R.|last8=Woerner|first8=August E.|last9=O'Connor|first9=Timothy D.|last10=Santpere|first10=Gabriel|last11=Cagan|first11=Alexander|date=July 2013|title=Great ape genetic diversity and population history|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=499|issue=7459|pages=471β475|doi=10.1038/nature12228|pmid=23823723|pmc=3822165|bibcode=2013Natur.499..471P|issn=1476-4687}}</ref>]] The English word ''chimpanzee'' is first recorded in 1738.<ref>{{cite web |title=chimpanzee |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chimpanzee |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=18 May 2019 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518163608/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chimpanzee |url-status=live }}</ref> It is derived from [[Vili language|Vili]] ''ci-mpenze''<ref>{{cite book |title=American Heritage Dictionary |date=2011 |edition=5th |chapter-url=https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=chimpanzee |access-date=31 August 2018 |chapter=chimpanzee |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |archive-date=1 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113224/https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=chimpanzee |url-status=live }}</ref> or [[Tshiluba language]] ''chimpenze'', with a meaning of "[[ape]]",<ref>{{cite web |title=chimpanzee |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/chimpanzee#etymonline_v_11268 |website=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216194133/https://www.etymonline.com/word/chimpanzee#etymonline_v_11268 |url-status=live }}</ref> or "mockman".<ref>{{cite book|editor=Hastrup, Kirsten|year=2013|title=Anthropology and Nature|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=168|isbn=9781134463213}}</ref> The colloquialism "chimp" was most likely coined some time in the late 1870s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chimp |title=chimp definition | Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=6 June 2009 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170009/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chimp |url-status=live }}</ref> The genus name ''Pan'' derives from the [[Pan (god)|Greek god]], while the [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''troglodytes'' was taken from the [[Troglodytae]], a mythical race of cave-dwellers.<ref name="Corbey"/><ref name="Stanford"/>
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