Sentences with phrase «by other apes»

Although there has been a great deal of disagreement in this area, there are ultimately only three prevailing theories for how the human gluteals evolved to become so different from those possessed by other apes: upright posture, persistence running, and tool use.

Hardy pointed out that only aquatic mammals like walruses and hippopotamuses have naked skin and subcutaneous fat — human traits not shared by other apes.

Not exact matches

However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

The uniqueness of Man is shown by the fact that there is no real intellect in the animals — even the higher apes show no propensity for learning other languages, for mathematics, science or art; nor do animals show evidence of free will — they are completely constrained by the material environment and by instinct.

Standridge resembles the «bad ape» who sometimes manages to bully his way into control of a group of other apes, but only for a year or two before his tactics cause him to be deposed by the smarter, younger apes, or by apes simply leaving the group to form their own.

She has been awarded prizes for her writing about the scientific labor force, biomedical engineering, cancer genetics, depression, women's health, electronic medical records, apes that use sign language, and other topics by IEEE - USA, the American Association of University Professors, the American Psychological Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Radcliffe College, and other organizations.

Humans are said by some to be pedomorphic compared with other primates.Our facial structure bears some resemblance to that of an immature ape.

For decades he has carefully documented how apes and monkeys avoid fights or quickly make up after them by sharing food, grooming each other, or even hugging and kissing.

Videos of two captive white - handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) leaping from one branch of a jungle gym to another reveal that the apes break the record for work per mass performed in a single movement by any other species to date.

The comparison with other sequenced genomes revealed that over the course of great ape evolution, about 90 % of the genome has been influenced by natural selection.

Primatologists have long debated whether the Nyanzapithecus genus belonged to the ape or monkey line, but the presence of these tubes, combined with the size and shape of the teeth, solidly mark Alesi — and by extension the other nyanzapithecines — as apes, the researchers report today in Nature.

This means that when we swivel our eyeballs sideways, we have a lateral view of the world that is unimpeded by the bones of the skull, unlike other apes.

What makes some apes pick up tools and others not has perplexed scientists, but hunger brought on by travel appears to be a big motivator

Skeletal and genetic evidence puts these apes on a separate evolutionary trajectory from other orangutans in Sumatra (Pongo abelii) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), says a team led by evolutionary anthropologist Michael Krützen of the University of...

Field teams conducted widespread surveys, the most intensive ever for this ape, in regions beset by insecurity, searching for ground nests and other signs of this elusive ape.

Many experts say that social learning is key — that the apes figure out how to honey - dip by watching others.

«In addition, our study has shown that there is a mosaic evolution of the three species, in the sense that some features are shared by humans and bonobos, others by humans and common chimpanzees, and still others by the two ape species,» said Rui Diogo, lead author of the paper and associate professor of anatomy at Howard University.

Fewer than 800 individuals remain, and the construction of a dam and road threaten the prime habitat of the ape, which is distinguished from its cousins by, among other things, frizzier hair and a taste for caterpillars.

So conservationists will need to find creative ways of enlisting their help, for example by promoting tourism and other benefits of a healthy forest, to keep the world's newest ape species alive.

For more information, read «Other Origins: the Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory», by Russell Ciochon, John Olsen and Jamie James (1990).

This paper suggested that the unique shape and size of the gluteus maximus in humans (its morphology is very different in other apes) was caused by our long history of running.

By shrieking, they scare away the other apes from the water and aggressively establish dominance and territoriality.

Among other things, the habitat houses apes orphaned by poachers.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Here's the list of the 128 new movies Inside Llewyn Davis Grudge Match Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Her Safety Not Guaranteed Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Thanks for Sharing Cutie and the Boxer On the Waterfront That Awkward Moment Warm Bodies Lone Survivor Ride Along Eraserhead Dirty Wars Badlands Labor Day The Lego Movie 3 Women About Last Night Remember Me RoboCop (2014) The Square 20 Feet From Stardom Non-Stop Bottle Rocket The Monuments Men The Grand Budapest Hotel Mulligans Everything or Nothing Veronica Mars Bad Words Elaine Stritch Shoot Me Divergent Muppets Most Wanted Noah Sabotage Captain America: The Winter Soldier Draft Day The Railway Man Transcendence Heaven is for Real Suspicion The Other Woman Short Term 12 Eating Raoul The Amazing Spider - Man 2 Le Week - End Neighbors Million Dollar Arm Godzilla X-Men: Days of Future Past How to Survive a Plague The Normal Heart The Killing Chef A Million Ways to Die in the West Maleficent The Fault in Our Stars Edge of Tomorrow 22 Jump Street How to Train Your Dragon 2 Jersey Boys Transformers: Age of Extinction Tammy Life Itself A Hard Day's Night Begin Again Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Carrie (2013) Sex Tape Snowpiercer Boyhood I Origins You're Next A Most Wanted Man Guardians of the Galaxy The Hundred - Foot Journey Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Only Lovers Left Alive 42 The Giver If I Stay Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Let's Be Cops Sinister Get On Up The Trip to Italy The Drop This Is Where I Leave You The Maze Runner Hector and the Search for Happiness Breathless The Equalizer Gone Girl Annabelle The Sacrament The Judge Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Fury In a World... Men, Women & Children The Last Time You Had Fun V / H / S: Viral Just Before I Go St. Vincent Birdman Kumiko The Treasure Hunter The Imitation Game Wild Whiplash Nightcrawler Foxcatcher The Orphange Interestellar Big Hero 6 Rosewater Dumb and Dumber To The Theory of Everything The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Into the Woods Exodus: Gods and Kings Big Eyes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Stranger By the Lake Top Five The Babadook Annie (2014) Unbroken The Interview

I have never seen Toby Kebbell in anything else, and I was mesmerized by the menacing qualities of Koba and how truly evil he becomes toward the other apes.

Obsessed with revenge, Caesar sends the other apes off to find their new homeland while he deals with the Colonel, but he is joined by several close confidants, including Maurice (Karin Konoval), Rocket (Terry Notary) and Luca (Michael Adamthwaite).

I was looking forward to it more than any other summer movie this year, but Planet of the Apes turns out to be the worst movie by a Great American Director since Brian De Palma slogged his way through Mission to Mars last year.

Soon, however, other X-Men form to stop this nonsense, including Raven / Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence, «American Hustle»), Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan, «Entertainment»), Hank McCoy / Beast (Nicholas Hoult, «Mad Max: Fury Road»), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner, «Game of Thrones» TV series), Alex Summers / Havok (Lucas Till, «The Curse of Downers Grove»), Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit - McPhee, «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes») and Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver (Evan Peters, «The Lazarus Effect»), all led by Charles Xavier and his ability to get inside people's thoughts and convince them to change their minds, or something like that.

First - time feature - director Michôd borrows a little from other hip genre filmmakers; he apes Quentin Tarantino by throwing a kitschy Air Supply song onto the soundtrack, and aestheticizes roughhousing in ways reminiscent of Nicolas Winding Refn.

The live presentation will be hosted by Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and they'll get assists from stars such as Salma Hayek, Priyanka Chopra, Gal Gadot and Rebel Wilson, among others.

Wallpaper — Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Nintendo's other recent game release involves a certain ape - like character — you can show off your love for him and his latest title on Switch by adorning your devices with Tropical Freeze artwork for a mere 50 Platinum Points.

Hosted by Hank Azaria (the voice of Moe, Ape, Chief Wiggum and many others), the event featured a slew of guest stars performing songs and score from The Simpsons, with a strong focus on the early years.

On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge (which served as a key human / ape battleground in Rise) is Caesar (played again by Andy Serkis via motion capture), who since the last movie has built a thriving community of fellow apes and led them to a harmonious existence, tucked away in the towering redwoods of Marin County.

, Kedi (a documentary about street cats in Istanbul), Personal Shopper, Dawson City: Frozen Time, A Ghost Story, Call Me By Your Name, God's Own Country, The Other Side of Hope, The Square, The Lost City of Z, Okja, The Florida Project, Marjorie Prime, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, It Comes at Night, Wind River, Coco, Woodshock, The Devil's Candy, and The Lovers.

I was also struck by the concept of members of a species turning on each other as we see with the apes when some of them turn against Caesar.

People are brutally attacked by apes, including a man thrown to ground, another violently hit, others are caught in nets, and a woman is knocked down.

They're duking it out by seducing drivers to switch companies, aping each other's tactics, and undercutting fares.

Exterior & Styling Unfortunately, the inoffensively styled 2014 Q70 is upstaged by the more elegant lines of the coming 2015, which apes Maserati and other classic sports cars.

1912: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs «I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.»

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All of a sudden the structure of the U.S. stock market, which had been aped by other markets, seemed to implicate more than just the market for U.S. stocks.

Other not - to - be-missed ones include: Ape Culture at HKW, Alex Vivian «s Scenes at Sandy Brown, the High Pressure Systems group show at Konzulat, Field Vision by Christian Jankowski and Jon Rafman at Future Gallery, and Windowlicker at Center.

Other works such as The Seduction (2012) by Francis Upritchard are less so adapted for the localized flora but speak to the Lilliputian theme of fairyland idols with two miniature - sized apes frozen in an explorative embrace.

It offends no one (because it takes no risks), squanders the museum's deep and rich catalog (because it cherry - picks to illustrate not the best contemporary painting but contrived ideas about painting), and most egregiously apes curatorial models developed by other, younger institutions with a fraction of MOMA's artistic, financial, and authorial acumen.»

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

Last week, for example, when the World Conservation Union came out with its biennial list of the world's 25 most endangered apes, monkeys, lemurs, marmosets and other primates, most were represented by Mr. Nash's drawings, which he does as an illustrator for Conservation International.

The series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

The study notes that other apes and early humans in Africa who had like - minded teeth were able to adapt by eating the leaves, grass and roots that took the place of their former meals.

We'd bet that the original Mi Mix is only behind Apple and Samsung when it comes to inspiring copycats, the design aped by the likes of Doogee, Ulefone, UMI and several other budget manufacturers.