Sentences with phrase «suggest rhesus»

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Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

The study of rhesus macaques showed some of the monkeys remain socially isolated for much of their lives, suggesting their isolation is caused by a persistent trait or traits.

The sophistication of these systems in infants resembles that of modules in nonhuman primates, suggesting an ancient, evolutionary development; a six - month - old baby understands numbers, space, objects and faces much as a mature rhesus monkey does.

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

And research in rhesus monkeys suggests similar benefits in primates: One study found that monkeys eating 30 percent less than their cage mates appeared to be protected from age - related diseases and had lower mortality 15 to 20 years later.

Your research with rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico suggests that they are capable of discerning human intentions.

«However,» the author adds, «although our results suggest that rhesus macaques are able to distinguish between in - group and out - group individuals based on olfactory cues alone, the recognition of conspecifics might be a more multimodal process also including visual cues or a combination of olfactory and auditory signals.

A new study suggests that female rhesus monkeys engage in a kind of baby talk, casting doubt on the long - held belief that the behavior is exclusively human.

Utilizing a range of MOIs of 600, 1000, and 2000 we observed mean ccr5 and cxcr4 disruption levels of 19.6 % and 14.0 %, respectively (Figure 7), which suggests that adoptive therapy of cells modified with ZFNs is feasible to model in rhesus macaques.

Although some studies have suggested that monkeys that eat less live longer, a new 25 - year - long primate study concluded that calorie restriction does not extend average life span in rhesus monkeys.