Sentences with phrase «like gibbons»

When they examined the canal structures of more than 200 mammal species, the research team found that fast, agile movers — like gibbons and leaping tarsiers — have exceptionally large canals for their size, while slow, deliberate animals like sloths have small ones.

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

«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.

Evolution is still a Theory until they have it all buttoned up... til then... just keep beating your chests like the gibbons you claim you're from.

Although they lived in a land richly endowed with carnivores, our ancestors could not run like the gazelle, burrow like the rabbit, climb trees like the gibbon, fly away like the flamingo, or fight back like the elephant.

Although the fossil looks a bit like a gibbon skull on first blush, Nengo says, its dental pattern and teeth shape suggest its closest relatives are other Miocene fossil primates from the genus Nyanzapithecus, also found in Kenya.

Not exact matches

Coen is already doing something like this with white - cheeked gibbons.

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.

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.

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

Parker doesn't say, but this sounds like a rehash of the old creationist canard that Dubois eventually decided that the Java Man skullcap was just a giant gibbon and nothing to do with human evolution.

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.

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.

The icing on the cake comes in a completely unnecessary scene in which he dances by himself in a strobe - lit club like a lanky gibbon jumped up on Adderall.

Biofuels will continue to pollute the atmosphere more than petrol or diesel, all under the veil of an emissions - reducing policy, and will increasingly threaten the homes of animals like the orangutans and gibbons that live here in Borneo.

The Sabangau rainforest is home to the world's largest populations of orangutans and Southern Bornean gibbons, but places like this are increasingly under threat across southeast Asia from conversion to oil palm, a crop that's used to produce biofuels for foreign markets like Europe.