Sentences with phrase «one's fellow primates»

Other features humans do not share with fellow primates, like superior sequence processing abilities, could have helped our ancestors to develop speech when chimps could not.

Researchers discover the so - called «Nutcracker man» ate mostly plants, diverging from fellow primates.

And you say that no amount of frustration or rage you may have towards religious ideologies will ever cause you to lose your humanity toward your fellow primates.

I would now be less eager to suggest that the risks be fobbed off on our fellow primates; more to the point, I'd be more willing to say that at some point risks have to be run by someone if we are to keep at our mission of moving «from leeches to lasers.»

A study published in the November 4 issue of Science studied 23 macaques assigned to live either alone, with a friend or in a groups of from three to seven fellow primates.

This one hits a little too close to home: Our close relatives, chimps, don't care much for their fellow primates.

THE 7 hours of sleep we get every night may not feel like quite enough, but compared with our fellow primates, which spend around 12 hours a day slumbering, humans barely get any shut - eye.

In fact, it is so important that among mammals and birds the norm is for a species to have a third eyelid and those lacking one — such as humans and some of our fellow primates — are the true oddities in nature.

Hawley replies that cooperation as practiced by our fellow primates is often a form of competition: Chimpanzees, for instance, form alliances and use them to gain status; bonobo monkeys trade sexual favors as a way to win friends and influence fellow primates.

One of the most controversial issues in neuroscience is the use of our fellow primates as research subjects.

Even our fellow primates seem to have keener noses than we do.

The expansion of the cerebral cortex sets humans apart from the rest of their fellow primates.

The animal operating the handle can not get at the food himself, making it more likely that he is engaging in altruistic behavior toward his fellow primates.

But the fact that a fellow primate was able to make and use the new pigments, even though they received the genes as adults, was a real eye - opener.

New research sheds light on why lemurs don't eat as much fruit as their fellow primates and why they've developed odd dietary behaviors: the fruit on Madagascar contains too little protein to sustain them.

«Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape» by Nathaniel Gold Today marks the one year anniversary of The Primate Diaries in its latest incarnation here at the Scientific American blog network as well as my collaboration with the artist, and fellow primate, Nathaniel Gold.

It links us to our fellow primates and back toward the earliest days of life on earth.