Sentences with phrase «rather than chimpanzees»

HIV - 2 is thought to come from the SIV in Sooty Mangabeys rather than chimpanzees, but the crossover to humans is believed to have happened in a similar way (i.e. through the butchering and consumption of monkey meat).

Not exact matches

A stuffed python on a fishing line has revealed that chimpanzee alarm calls have intentional meaning rather than being involuntary expressions of emotion

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

Named Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the specimen is significant even though it's so fragmentary: The hole in the cranium through which the spinal cord exits appears to be at the bottom, as it is for upright, two - legged hominins, rather than toward the back, as seen in chimpanzees and other knuckle - walkers.

Now, the view of the ancient genome is so clear that Meyer and his colleagues were able to detect for the first time that Denisovans, like modern humans, had 23 pairs of chromosomes, rather than 24 pairs, as in chimpanzees.

Despite the benefits of social status on their reproductive success — higher - ranking females appear to have access to better food and higher infant survival than their low - ranking counterparts — the tendency of female chimpanzees to «wait their turn» rather than fighting for rank reveals the competing priorities males and females face when ensuring the success of their offspring.

The researchers say that the apparent similarity between human children and young chimpanzees in the observed male bias in object manipulation, and manipulation during play in particular, may suggest that object play functions as motor skill practice for male - specific behaviours such as dominance displays, which sometimes involve the aimed throwing of objects, rather than purely to develop tool use skills.

An international team of scientists has presented two studies that suggest the divergence point between chimpanzees and humans took place in the Eastern Mediterranean rather than East Africa.

Except for having small rather than large teeth, and a quadrupedal rather than a bipedal pelvis, pygmy chimpanzees are remarkably like early gracile australopithecines in their skeletal dimensions.

Even some chimpanzees can survive in semi-arid Senegal environments rather than their usual forests (knowing how to dig for roots and tubers can confer survival, as you can get water along with calories).