Sentences with phrase «other apes»

Or perhaps the opportunities to learn from other apes through social contact?
How does it explain our poor design, how our DNA is so similar to that of other apes, or even how the various species are placed around the world?
It turns out that the most successful alpha apes are not necessarily the strongest, but the ones who are best at making alliances with other apes, both males and females.
But the extinction of some strains of bacteria that persist in other apes but not humans raises a red flag for our health.
Combined with other features, it also suggests other apes have evolved to be significantly different to the common ancestor we share with them.
Humans, unlike other apes, have evolved to seek cooperative partnerships that make large - scale collaborations possible (SN: 10/28/17, p. 7), Krupenye and Hare propose.
• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors — not other apes — that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).
Credit the filmmakers for making every effort to make Kong as facially expressive as realism allows, and especially in not going the route taken by other ape films in just putting a guy in an ape suit, which would have proven disastrous.
Only dolphins, orcas, elephants, magpies, humans and a few other apes have passed the test so far.
For the first two thirds of our history, the size of our ancestors» brains was within the range of those of other apes living today.
For millions of years, the common ancestors of humans and other apes shared a particular glycan known as Neu5Gc.
Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages diverged from the hominid stem - line, the human line produced a variety of human species.
The researchers coaxed white blood cells from humans and other apes into forming stem cells, from which they grew organoids.
Earlier this year, Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth and her colleagues reported the first observation of other apes quickly mimicking faces.
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.
Another alternative is that our eyes began to protrude because there was a relaxation of the pressures forcing other apes to have relatively recessed eyes, says Denion.
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.
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.
«The lower acetylcholine in humans corresponds to our decreased aggression, compared to most other apes.
Our evolving chemical signature, they suggest, allowed us to outcompete other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.
Jane Goodall observed this in APES, and yet other apes HIDE their afterbirth so to claim we're the only mammals that do so is insane.
Pontzer was surprised to see how «close to the edge» the orangutans seem to be living and is curious to see if other apes have similar protein situations.
Actor Andy Serkis, whom Monitor film critic Peter Rainer calls «incomparable,» reprises his role as Caesar, an ape leading other apes in their revolt against humans.
Caesar is also enforced as a Christlike figure, whom other apes look to for hope while the Colonel has him pushed to his limit and strung up on a diagonal cross.
After attacking a neighbour, Caesar is impounded and it's here that he meets other apes and foments rebellion.
The ape ends his report by instructing other apes NOT to allow themselves to be tamed.
What happens is two other apes who are only 75 % as strong, gang up to depose the ape at the top.
Before he was universally known for his theory of natural selection, the young naturalist made a decision that has long been hailed as the type of behavior that fundamentally separates humans from other apes.
This means that when we swivel our eyeballs sideways, we have a lateral view of the world that is unimpeded by the bones of the skull, unlike other apes.
Standridge resembles the «bad ape» who sometimes manages to bully his way into control of a group of other apes, but only for a year or two before his tactics cause him to be deposed by the smarter, younger apes, or by apes simply leaving the group to form their own.
Hardy pointed out that only aquatic mammals like walruses and hippopotamuses have naked skin and subcutaneous fat — human traits not shared by other apes.
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.
But few scientists thought there were enough hominins — ancestors of humans but not other apes — before that to threaten the fierce assortment of carnivores that roamed Africa, or that the crude stone tools that our ancestors began to wield 2.6 million years ago could be used for hunting.
Finally, religion often aids men in behaving worse than any other ape.
Amongst apes on the Earth now, chimpanzees share more similarities with humans than the other apes.
The whales, the dolphins and other apes may think of themselves as much as we think of ourselves.
Genetics alone show the similarity between humans and other apes.
I did like the take on some being «uncomfortable» with relation to other apes... «how about our relationship to trees?»
We (and other apes, social animals) have developed rules that make us more effective and hence more competi.tive.
I had to laugh at Rain who said he would never accept that we have a common ancestor with other apes, and yes even further back to early monkeys, but in fact we could go all the way back in time to find we have a common ancestor with lowly bacteria.
Evolution predicts common ancestry and prior to its discovery, our 23 pairs v. the other apes» 24 pairs was a non-trivial dilemma.
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.
Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes.
Their findings challenge how we think about the evolution of communication and potentially move the dividing line between humans and other apes.
But when the other ape was let in, it tended to sit in the other room in front of half a banana.
These findings hint that our powerful urge to imitate even nonsensical gestures may be one of the things that separate humans from other apes.
To get these crucial nutrients and calories, other apes will go into a tree and gorge themselves on fruit until it's gone.
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