Sentences with phrase «other than a chimp»

I never claimed Bush was anything other than a chimp, but Obama is GW's third term.

Not exact matches

There is no fossial records other than an extict chimp, there is no archeological records, but there is a darn good theory.

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.

CHIMPS recognise unfairness, even when it involves individuals other than themselves.

Bonobos are more likely than chimps to have concern for each other (Image: ZSSD / Minden Pictures / FLPA)

This kind of prosocial behavior, a form of altruism that seeks to benefit others and promote cooperation, has now been found in chimps, the species that Darwin did more than any other human to connect us with.

In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, «approaching us in the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to do.

And 40 genes involved in these nine schizophrenia - related pathways also differed much more between chimps and humans than genes associated with the other 12.

Morgan and Sanz documented more than 20 «cultural variations,» or behaviors not seen in other chimp populations.

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.

Chimps, on the other hand, generally avoided their partner and shared food less than half of the time.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

And the variation in skull size and facial shape is no greater than in other species, including both modern humans or chimps, says Ponce de León — especially when the growth of the jaw and face over a lifetime are considered.

However, this latest research focused on a group with a more defined social hierarchy, so it was the rank of the nearby chimps that was of more concern to those grooming, rather than the number of others nearby.

This echoes prior research by Dr Newton - Fisher which found that if a larger number of other chimpanzees are nearby then, regardless of rank, the grooming chimp would usually stop grooming sooner than if there were no other chimps nearby, or a small number.

For example, each chimp should have at least 1000 square feet of outdoor space and live with no fewer than six other animals.

But in the brain, the team detected much more gene expression in humans than in chimps, whereas gene expression in the brains of chimps and the other primates was about the same.

People have evolved to sleep much less than chimps, baboons or any other primate studied so far, a new study finds.

Regulator genes help determine how other genes will express themselves, and the researchers suspected that some of these regulators might be making brain development more active in human embryos than in chimps.

In the April 2007 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard, the Broad Institute and Arizona State show that there has been very little detectable admixture between the different populations and that chimps from the central and eastern populations are more closely related to each other than they are to the western «subspecies.»

I also wonder if pregnant chimps eat more greens than other chimps in order to get a higher sodium intake?

Interestingly, they also found that the better throwing chimps didn't appear to posses any more physical prowess than other chimps, which the researchers suggest means that throwing didn't develop as a means of hunting, but as a form of communication within groups, i.e. throwing stuff at someone else became a form of self expression, which is clearly evident to anyone who has ever been targeted by a chimp locked up in a zoo.