Sentences with phrase «animal than a chimpanzee»

In the extract from «The Lives of the Surrealists» by Desmond Morris, learn about the childhood that shaped Salvador Dalí's work, his first meeting with Picasso, and why he thought Jackson Pollock was more of an animal than a chimpanzee.

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If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal.

She picked those non-human primates because they are the closest relatives in the animal kingdom, especially gorillas and chimpanzees, who share more than 98 % of their genes with humans.

Investigators have observed geophagia in more than 200 species of animals, including parrots, deer, elephants, bats, rabbits, baboons, gorillas and chimpanzees.

The researchers were surprised by the findings because these African apes — our closest relatives in the animal kingdom along with chimpanzees — have been shown to be less aggressive than chimps.

The sequencing of the human genome (ScienceNOW, 14 April 2003:) gave scientists major new insights into what makes us human: Although we share more than 98 % of our genetic code with the chimpanzee, natural selection has turned us into a very different animal than the chimps, from whom our hominid ancestors split evolutionarily some 6 million years ago (ScienceNOW, 31 August).

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

Director Danny Boyle Cast Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson This town is coming like a ghost town The first scene in Danny Boyle's symbolic UK - set zombie fest is hairy in more ways than one: a group of animal activists descend on a biological vivisection centre and release a chimpanzee infected with rage, a contagious rabies - like virus.

In what seems to be a string of animals being more intelligent than we thought stories, chimpanzees are even smarter than we thought they were.