Sentences with phrase «than chimpanzees»

Despite having a brain only slightly larger than a chimpanzee's, H. naledi displays key humanlike neural features, two anthropologists reported April 20 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Other than chimpanzees in western Africa, and a recently discovered group of long - tailed macaques, the capuchins of Boa Vista are the only non-human primates known to routinely use stones to crack open their dinner.

The human version of that switch produces a 12 percent larger cortex than a chimpanzee version does, the Duke team reports February 19 in Current Biology.

Analysis of these bones has shown that the foot bones look much more like human bones than chimpanzee bones, except for two major areas: the toes of H. naledi's foot were more curved and their feet were generally flatter than seen in the average modern human.

«It's particularly striking that the elephants were able to inhibit pulling» longer than chimpanzees do, says comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Both Crompton and Begun point out that modern gorillas produce footprints that are far more similar to human than chimpanzee prints, so perhaps another distantly - related ape evolved similar feet 5.7 million years ago.

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).

So when it comes to paternal care, the devoted dad who feeds his kids and walks them to school each day has more in common with a wolf than a chimpanzee.

In a study published on Nov. 16, scientists discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the environment, than chimpanzee brains and that this may have accounted for part of human evolution.

Yet, in mouse embryos the researchers found that the human enhancer was active earlier in development and more active in general than the chimpanzee enhancer.

Humans have much higher levels of amylase in their saliva than chimpanzees, and recently it was discovered how this came about.

Still, the biggest shock is the fact that Flo's puny brain — no bigger than a chimpanzee's — was so capable.

«Our brains are three times larger, have many more cells and therefore more processing power than chimpanzee or monkey,» said Andre M.M. Sousa, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of neuroscientist Nenad Sestan and co-lead author of the study.

At the DNA level, humans and chimpanzees are about 98 percent alike, yet the human brain is three times bigger and far more complex than the chimpanzee's.

Although humans are more likely than chimpanzees to be right - handed, infants of both species are equally likely to inherit their parents» hand preferences.

«They learned to do this faster than the chimpanzees,» says Plotnik.

Are human hands more primitive than chimpanzee hands?

Chimpanzees elsewhere, where there are more predators, build nests much higher up in the trees than the chimpanzees in Fongoli, Senegal, where I did my experiment.

It is known, however, that humans» genomes are less variable than chimpanzees».

Dogs are even more adept than chimpanzees at interpreting certain human signals such as pointing or gazing.

Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother.

But the human neocortex has accumulated about three times more lipid changes than the chimpanzee cortex has since we split from our common ancestor.

«On the basis of individual neurons of the brain, humans may indeed have a far more active, or even more complex, transcription profile than chimpanzee,» the authors note.

Mind Readers: Through several experiments, scientists have discovered that dogs can read human gestures and sounds far better than chimpanzees and wolves.

In the extract from «The Lives of the Surrealists» by Desmond Morris, learn about the childhood that shaped Salvador Dalí's work, his first meeting with Picasso, and why he thought Jackson Pollock was more of an animal than a chimpanzee.

Those unique mutations make you different from one another, but are not what make you different than a chimpanzee.

They have brains no larger than a chimpanzee's — with a volume around 400 — 500 cm3 -, but walk upright on two legs.

Chimpanzee nests are about 90 centimetres across, but mine were longer because I'm longer than a chimpanzee.

Unlike now where you can easily be taken for a blabbering idiot with an IQ much less (way less) than the chimpanzees I saw at the zoo yesterday.

The results showed that even though this hominid's brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it most likely walked upright like modern humans.

The hobbit stood about 1 metre tall and the single skull found so far has a braincase no larger than a chimpanzee's.

Although humans weigh about 20 percent more than chimpanzees, our closest relative, the human brain weighs 250 percent more.