Sentences with phrase «other chimps because»

By applying social network analysis — the mathematical theory behind Facebook that explains how different individuals are connected — Rushmore found that high - ranking mothers and their juveniles (as well as high - ranking males) were most likely to transmit diseases to other chimps because everyone in the community wants to be with them.

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Story number 2: Contagious yawning, where you yawn because you see your friend yawn can only occur in humans and other primates such as chimps.

The book's title, incidentally, draws on bonobos because they are more likely than chimps to behave morally, to have concern for each other, to value harmony and so on.

Because the skull bore the distinctive sagittal crest of gorillas but otherwise had chimp - like dimensions, some primatologists suggested it represented a new subspecies of gorilla, while others believed it to be a chimp - gorilla hybrid.

Because bonobos are more tolerant of each other and more willing to share, they're able to cooperate more effectively than chimps in some situations, the researchers conclude.

That's because compared with other primates, humans give birth to babies with larger bodies and brains — on average, human babies are 6.1 % of their mother's body size compared with chimp babies (3.3 %) and gorilla babies (2.7 %).

This is because, unlike most other primate species, chimps live in patrilineal communities, in which the males of a community stick together and the females move on to other groups.