Sentences with phrase «in other apes»

However, in other apes, the equivalent muscle to the gluteus medius is much larger than the gluteus maximus.

In other apes, the equivalent gluteal muscles originate in the fascia that covers the gluteus medius and spinal erectors and from the sacrum and ischium.

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.

What's more, the outer margin — the side of the orbit furthest from the nose — is recessed much further back in the human skull than in other ape skulls.

Not exact matches

I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

In other words: Everybody's still trying to ape Four Seasons, and the anybody - can - do - it ethos of the sharing economy will reach its limits soon enough.

Finally, religion often aids men in behaving worse than any other ape.

if its the human species... we are but a single branch of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal species.

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).

In other words, «human» is a contrast group to «ape,» not a subset.

«In order that primeval men, or the ape - like progenitors of man, should have become social,» Darwin reasoned, «they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings which impel other animals to live in a body.&raquIn order that primeval men, or the ape - like progenitors of man, should have become social,» Darwin reasoned, «they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings which impel other animals to live in a body.&raquin a body.»

In fact it is apparent that some other animals share a certain degree of self - consciousness, most notably the great apes.

It's the old, instinctive deference to the Alpha - Ape that was wired into our brains back when our remotest ancestors were still climbing in trees and eating bugs off each other's hairy hides.

Others, also numbering in the millions do act, behave and conduct themselves worst than apes.

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.»

On the other hand, one has to wonder how descending from apes makes us «created in the image of God.»

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.

[69] Ernst Haeckel claimed that Negroes have stronger and more freely movable toes than any other race which is evidence that Negroes are connected to apes because when apes stop climbing in trees they hold on to the trees with their toes, Haeckel compared Negroes to «four - handed» apes.

We came second in the group, lets wait and see the draw before we all start going ape s ** t. I'm thinking we should all hope to get Barcelona and any other giant club which claws it's way back on top, hoping against it has hardly ever worked, so bring on Barca and we'll show them a thing or two about the new and improved A-Team.

You would be far far better off scientifically comparing human birthing with other primates and in particular the great apes.

Tedisco was a co-sponsor of the bill (A. 2596A / S.1079 A), known as «Ape's Law» and named after a K - 9 that lost its life in Herkimer County protecting others.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

Experiments in the 1990s indicated that great apes and some monkeys do understand deception, but that their understanding of the minds of others is probably implicit rather than explicit as it is in adult humans.

But when the other ape was let in, it tended to sit in the other room in front of half a banana.

In earlier studies several apes, monkeys and even dogs responded negatively when they received a meagre reward for the same task that earned others a more lavish pay - off.

The same location has yielded other fossil signposts in the meandering path to fully modern humans, including a 4.5 million - year - old jaw of a more ape - like species, Ardipithecus ramidus.

Recently, however, researchers have found that other apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, seem to show signs of self - awareness, including recognizing and inspecting themselves in a mirror.

Lucy and other members of Australopithecus had the full human range of motion, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, even though they still had traits that helped them climb trees (albeit less powerfully than other living apes).

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.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the otheIn addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the othein elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the othein primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

In the other, a person grabs a hammerlike object and clobbers the ape character with it (see the video above).

In other trials, the apes were initially presented two pieces of fruit, but half the time they got only one: negative framing.

The result may help explain what differentiates humans» cooperative skills from those of other apes, biological anthropologists Christopher Krupenye of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Brian Hare of Duke University report online January 4 in Current Biology.

Despite differences in brain size, the researchers found striking similarities between primate species of gene expression in 16 regions of the brain — even in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher order learning that most distinguishes humans from other apes.

Other apes, in contrast, have flexible feet better suited to grasping branches as they move through the trees.

When orangutans play with each other, they sometimes open their mouths in the ape equivalent of a smile.

Sudmant, a UW graduate student in genome sciences, said, «Gathering this data is critical to understanding differences between great ape species, and separating aspects of the genetic code that distinguish humans from other primates.»

The groundbreaking study suggests that this skill likely can be traced back to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans, and may be found in other species.

Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.

As long as monkeys, apes and other primates continue to be depicted in this way, such misunderstandings are likely to continue.»

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.

Compared with chimpanzees and other apes, our revved - up internal engines burn calories 27 % faster, according to a paper in Nature this week.

But in many ways, we're not like other apes: Our brains are at least three times larger, and we produce more babies in shorter intervals — both of which consume more energy.

Researchers have long suspected that chimps and other apes might engage in similar behavior, but they very rarely observe the death of a chimp in the wild, says Richard Byrne, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom.

In forests, there is a constant danger of a stray branch damaging the eyes, and so other ape species may have evolved deep - set eyes to reduce the risk of injury.

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...

«We know that other primates — for example, capuchin monkeys from Brazil, which are totally unrelated to great apes in the Old World — also use bashing technologies,» he says.

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.

Our brains produce far more dopamine in these regions than the brains of other primates like apes.

This confirms that these two species of African apes are still highly similar to each other genetically, even though their populations split apart in Africa about 1 million years ago, perhaps after the Congo River formed and divided an ancestral population into two groups.