Sentences with phrase «ape relatives of»

Your approach is also consistent with our design as «hind gut fermenting» herbivores with the modifications from our great ape relatives of more amylase genes (to digest starch) and more volume in our small intestine to absorb starch.

Hahn's lab studies ape relatives of human pathogens such as HIV and malaria to gain a greater insight into the microbes that cause these diseases in humans.

Not exact matches

And as for the origin of species and evolution in terms of the scientific method, that scientific method has given us the ability to decode the DNA genome of many animals, and to show where, back in time, the various relatives of man and modern apes, for example, branched off into separate species.

If you know them at all, it is probably as the most highly sexed of all the apes, but they are also considered by many to be our closest living relative — closer even than the common chimp.

GREAT APE In Disney's new The Jungle Book, King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an ancient relative of orangutans.

Our evolutionary history has important lessons for us — all of our closest relatives have gone extinct, leaving only more distant African apes

Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig tested whether our closest great ape relative — the bonobo — and our most distant — the orangutan — share our ability to plan for the future.

A new study compared children's capacity to imitate behavior with the same capacity of humans» closest living great ape relatives, the bonobos.

What we're finding is that deliberately trying to get somebody else's attention seems to be something human beings do that none of our ape relatives do.

N. alesi and its close relatives probably evolved some time just before the common ancestor of all living apes.

It's now possible to not only model disease using the cells, but also to compare iPSCs from humans to those of our closest living relatives --- great apes, with which we share a majority of genes --- for insight into what molecular and cellular features make us human.

Differences in how genes are controlled, or even the loss or disruption of certain gene regulatory elements, may explain why human ancestors evolved to be so different from their great ape relatives.

None of which can fully explain why humans are so different from our ape relatives.

Comparisons with the genome data of humans and our closest relatives, the great apes, show that while we all genetically have the same ancestors, the genetic information of the gibbons has changed more rapidly and stronger in the course of the evolutionary process.

Recent humans and their fossil relatives are classified as having thick molar enamel, one of very few dental traits that distinguish hominins from living African apes.

These reports highlight the behavioral flexibility and intelligence of great apes and indicate how little we actually know about our closest living relatives.

Monkeys and apes are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, and because of their high cognitive abilities and complex social behaviour, biomedical research using these animals requires additional justification and high welfare standards.

«Because Mescalerolemur and Mahgarita are close relatives, fusion of the lower jaws in Mahgarita must have occurred independently from that observed in humans and their relatives, the monkeys and apes» Kirk says.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are the two closest living relatives of the human species - the ultimate tool - using ape.

Similarly, the origin of haplorhine primates (tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans) was associated with the evolution of features supporting very high visual acuity (e.g., a retinal fovea, macula lutea, postorbital plate, small corneas relative to eye size, etc.) and a simultaneous reduction in the size and complexity of the nasal fossa.

Although it will effect your ability to handle some fiber most of the nutrition absorption comes before the large intestine in the small intestine which we have evolved to be much larger then our closest relatives the great apes.

The hominins split from the great apes about six million years ago, which gives us about 12 million years of evolutionary divergence between us and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees.

Our nearest relatives (apes) seem to get the bulk of their calories from plants, only eating meat occasionally so IMO we should only be eating it occasionally as well.

On the ape front, the leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) is ever more aptly - named, finding his efforts at stable rule sabotaged by a scowling, scarred rival called Koba (Toby Kebbell), who wants rid of their hated primate relatives for good.

Yet the game also came in for its fair share of criticism for its slow and inconsequential opening, largely empty world, bland colour palette, litany of rupee - related annoyances, relative lack of difficulty and slavish devotion to aping Ocarina at the expense of the freshness offered by predecessors Majora's Mask and the aforementioned Wind Waker.

This incongruous and oddly poignant coupling of ape, man's nearest animal relative, and fish, his primordial ancestor, expresses both opposition and symbiosis, and both a beginning and an end.

Even if each individual window of opportunity only changed the inborn abilities for hunting or cooperation by a mere one percent, 200 repetitions of this same selection scenario would (just like compound interest) be potentially capable of explaining seven-fold differences between our inborn abilities and those of our closest relatives among the great apes.