Sentences with phrase «gibbon ape»

The virology experts from the University's Vet School have carried out an investigation into the cancer outbreak which was caused by the gibbon ape leukemia retrovirus (GALV).

The latter infect vertebrates ranging from gibbon apes to koala bears to reptiles to domestic cats and are known to cause leukemia, as well as neurological disease.

Falk suspects the size discrepancy can be linked to the philandering tendencies of our primate ancestors.Falk found that like humans, male rhesus monkeys had larger brains than females, while male and female gibbon apes were equally endowed.

Not exact matches

However, 98 % of our DNA is identical to that of a subspecies of chimpanzee called the «bonobo», next in relation is the other subspecies of chimpanzee (the better know «common chimpanzee»), then gorillas, then orangutans, then the lesser apes «gibbons.»

n. Umbrella term for the primate superfamily, Hominoidea: gibbons, great apes (gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees), and humans.

Given the cerebellum's functions, Barton suggests it may have started with the first apes learning to swing from branch to branch, as modern gibbons do.

Until now, we knew little about this bone's natural history, except that it is present in Old World monkeys and gibbons but generally not in our more recent ape relatives.

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.

«There are numerous fossil apes, monkeys, and even more primitive fossil primates that look a bit like gibbons,» explains Christopher Gilbert of the City University of New York, a member of the team that analysed the fossil.

To work out just how different, Denion's team examined 100 modern human skulls and 120 ape skulls — 30 each belonging to gibbons, orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes

On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes lived in an environment that favored a gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.

«Last ape and human ancestor was about the size of a gibbon.»

A gibbon - like size has a range of consequences for existing models of ape evolution.

The gibbons, known as small apes are genetically farther from humans than the great apes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang - utans.

Their first appearance can be traced back with a high probability to the time of the splitting of the gibbons from the line of apes and humans.

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.

This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.

In their genome analysis, the researchers discovered that the genetic information of the gibbons differs in their entirety from that of humans and of apes.

But this time, she focused on gibbons, a type of ape.

Liz wanted to see how each gibbon interacted both with zoo visitors and other apes of its species.

German scientists tended to the view that the skullcap was that of a giant ape such as a gibbon, while English scientists tended to view it as a human, coming from either a primitive or a pathological individual, but there were plenty of other opinions.

Under this scheme, Java Man, especially if reconstructed with gibbon - like body proportions, had an index of 1/2, which placed it nicely in the gap between apes and humans.

In a study published in the Journal of Anatomy in April, researchers led by Katharine Balolia, from the Australian National University, examined the sagittal crests — a bony arch at the top of the skull — of great apes and gibbons.

Humans, other great apes, and gibbons, (but not more distantly related primates like baboons) can't dispose of the the waste product of purine metabolism (uric acid), and hence we're susceptible to gout when consuming carnivorous diets.

In the case of the Hainan gibbon, a species of ape in China, there are fewer than 30 animals left.»

Biologist Gabriella Skollar is a remarkable human being who has dedicated her life to the conservation of endangered, small, arboreal apes known as gibbons.