Sentences with phrase «say humans and apes»

That's not to say humans and apes aren't related, but the relationship can't be traced backward along a direct line of descent, one form morphing into another.

Not exact matches

I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

They only found 20 missing links between modern human and ancient ape, but heck, you said it, so it must be right.

I am just pointing out that IF there were a god with even sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described in Revelations.

Do you not see the similarities between say, an ape and a human?

We do not say that apes or atoms remember, perceive, or know as human beings remember, perceive and know.

Not every species loves sugar, but humans do — and so do apes, who are omnivores who love fruit and obtain about 80 % of their calories from fruit, Breslin said.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

Studies of apes and humans, he says, have found that while females fight less frequently than males, when they do fight, they «hold grudges much longer.»

EASY RIDER Gut bacteria have been passed down from the ancestors of humans and African apes for millennia, evolving alongside their hosts, says a new study that looked at bacteria from gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

«These animals learn something interesting, no doubt,» he says, «and can use it flexibly to generate new behavior, a feat that until a couple of decades ago was thought to be restricted to humans and other apes.»

Sudmant said his interest in studying the great apes, and wanting to preserve great ape species, stems from the similarity of great apes to humans and their curiosity about us.

Sudmant, a UW graduate student in genome sciences, said, «Gathering this data is critical to understanding differences between great ape species, and separating aspects of the genetic code that distinguish humans from other primates.»

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

The age and location of these fossils strengthen the view that the human and the modern ape lines originated in Africa and not Asia, the researchers said.

«We know that interbreeding played a role in human evolution, and now we know it was important for the great apes too,» says Hvilsom.

Since few great ape fossils have been found in Africa so far, «some scientists have forcefully suggested that the ancestors of African apes and humans must have emerged in Eurasia,» said study senior author Gen Suwa, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo.

«Ochman and colleagues show that human evolution was accompanied by both a rapid divergence of the microbiome from the microbiome of apes, and a drastic loss of diversity of the microbial community,» says Thomas Bosch of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

«The suggestion that differences in [neurochemical profiles] are correlated with particular ape — human differences in temperament and behavior remains a hypothesis, although a strongly - founded one,» he says.

«In addition, our study has shown that there is a mosaic evolution of the three species, in the sense that some features are shared by humans and bonobos, others by humans and common chimpanzees, and still others by the two ape species,» said Rui Diogo, lead author of the paper and associate professor of anatomy at Howard University.

This is the time period when human and African ape lines were thought to have split, but no fossils from this period had been found until now,» WoldeGabriel said.

Both Provine and Davila Ross say that, because humans and all living apes laugh, it's very likely that the distant 10 - million - to 16 - million - year - old progenitor of the ape lineage laughed, too.

«My motivation in studying human and great ape genomes,» Eichler said, «is to try to learn what makes us tick as a species.

«Not only does the model work for explaining differences in basic molar design, but it is also powerful enough to accurately predict the range of variants in size, shape, and additional cusp presence, from the most subtle to the most extreme, for most apes, fossil hominins, and modern humans,» says Ortiz.

A gigantic ape standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds lived alongside humans for over a million years, researchers say.

I'm not saying we must test this humans but testing faster ECM turnover rates in older adult mice, cat's, dogs, pigs, naked mole rats, apes and other close - related mammals to human to see how bad it gets, and if it's possible to revert to pre-adolescence or, at the latest, very - early adulthood levels.

«While great apes typically have two or three separate and diverging roots, the roots of Graecopithecus converge and are partially fused — a feature that is characteristic of modern humans, early humans and several pre-humans including Ardipithecus and Australopithecus,» says Madelaine Böhme, co-lead investigator on the project.

Humans and ancient apes looked a lot alike 7 million years ago, they say, and some features of the fossil skull are more ape - like than human - like.

«Because Mescalerolemur and Mahgarita are close relatives, fusion of the lower jaws in Mahgarita must have occurred independently from that observed in humans and their relatives, the monkeys and apes» Kirk says.

Why do they say that the smaller Dmanisi skulls belong to H. erectus and are human, if the man they recognize as the creationist expert on human evolution thinks they are apes?

Julia Lehmann, from Roehampton University, said: «In reality, the effects of climate change on African apes may be much worse, as our model does not take into account possible anthropogenic effects, such as habitat destruction by humans and the hunting of apes for bushmeat.»