Sentences with phrase «closest ape relatives»

Not exact matches

We're much more similar to other animals, and very, very similar to our closest living relatives, the great apes.

d. Apes are our closest living relatives, with a common ancestor around 7 million years ago.

What about our closest living relatives — the African apes?

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.

Even our closest relatives, the great apes, move smoothly from their juvenile to adult life phases — so why do humans spend an agonising decade skulking around in hoodies?

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.

Previously it was thought that great apes — our closest relatives — could not learn to produce new sounds and because speech is a learned behaviour it could not have originated from them.

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

Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest primate relatives, but the two apes have very different personalities.

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

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

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.

But our closest primate relatives, great apes such as chimpanzees, are not cooperative breeders.

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.

But Haun also extended this experiment to determine if our closest relatives — the great apes — shared an innate preference for one strategy or another.

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.

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.

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.

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.