Sentences with phrase «better than chimps»

Members of a tiny tribe in the Amazon jungle that has no words for numbers beyond two can't conceptualize numbers any better than chimps or human infants do, a new study has found.

Bird acknowledges that many animals probably understand the basic idea of support, but he points out that the rooks seem to comprehend its nuances better than chimps do.

Not exact matches

There is no fossial records other than an extict chimp, there is no archeological records, but there is a darn good theory.

But, since we humans have been mixing with one another for a tens of thousands of years, since it is more likely that any random black person on earth has more in common genetically with a random white person than another random black person (due to probability, because there are so many black people from differing genetic subgroups), and since humans share 96 % of our genetic makeup with chimps, the concept of «race» is really, scientifically, just a fiction best left to ignorant crazies like the Aryan nation.

In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, «approaching us in the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to do.

For example, chimps have a great many more genes related to olfaction than we do; they've got a better sense of smell because we've lost many of those genes.

The 2 percent distinction also involves an unusually large fraction of genes related to the immune system, parasite vulnerability, and infectious diseases: Chimps are resistant to malaria, and we aren't; we handle tuberculosis better than they do.

For example, according to a recent survey of five long - term chimp studies, the most sociable chimps tend to be best at using tools (captive chimps, by the same token, are better with tools than wild chimps).

Interestingly, they also found that the better throwing chimps didn't appear to posses any more physical prowess than other chimps, which the researchers suggest means that throwing didn't develop as a means of hunting, but as a form of communication within groups, i.e. throwing stuff at someone else became a form of self expression, which is clearly evident to anyone who has ever been targeted by a chimp locked up in a zoo.