Sentences with phrase «than chimps in»

Now, a behavioral study that directly compares the two apes suggests that the bonobos» more cordial nature enables them to cooperate more successfully than chimps in some situations.

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.

This is a free country by the way and I don't feel any freer than a chimp in an a half acre cage with banana trees you have to pay to climb.

Not exact matches

23 She also notes that in her studies gorillas give clearer evidence of deception than do chimps or orangutans.

The fact that chimps reared in isolation seemed incapable of self - recognition indicates that it is social experience rather than language which is one basis of public self - consciousness (SRCM 118).

Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or whales (OFD; also see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy usually resort to a type of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.

But, since we humans have been mixing with one another for a tens of thousands of years, since it is more likely that any random black person on earth has more in common genetically with a random white person than another random black person (due to probability, because there are so many black people from differing genetic subgroups), and since humans share 96 % of our genetic makeup with chimps, the concept of «race» is really, scientifically, just a fiction best left to ignorant crazies like the Aryan nation.

The frontal brain grooves on a H. naledi endocast, like those in modern humans, lie farther back than the grooves seen in the chimp MRI scan, Hurst contends.

Given that the human volunteers in Kret's study were more responsive than the chimps to changes in pupil size, it might be that the whites of our eyes evolved to help us subconsciously spot those changes more readily, says Harrison.

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 dIn 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 din the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to din other regions tend to do.

Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

(laughs) So now the thing in the article that I had never heard before that talks about how many sequences, for example, in a chicken and a chimp are much, much closer than in us and a chimp and that's really fascinating.

As Elaine Morgan points out on page 26, orang - utans are in many respects closer to us than chimps.

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.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

«For the first time, there are more chimpanzees in sanctuaries than there are in labs,» says Stephen Ross, director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, and board chair of Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, the only sanctuary authorized to take government - owned chimps.

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

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.

But when the food was cut into big chunks, bonobos cooperated to haul in the fruit more often than chimps did.

In each of the chimp, human, and gorilla, more than 500 genes have been evolving faster than expected, suggesting that they have changed in a way that confers some advantagIn each of the chimp, human, and gorilla, more than 500 genes have been evolving faster than expected, suggesting that they have changed in a way that confers some advantagin a way that confers some advantage.

Our muscles contain fewer glucose transporters than in chimps» muscles.

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.

A multitude of factors help makes the human brain superior to the chimps», but new research indicates that looser genetic control of brain development in humans allows us to learn and adapt to our environment with more flexibility than our primate cousins.

Indeed, a close look at the chimp genome reveals an important lesson in how genes and evolution work, and it suggests that chimps and humans are a lot more similar than even a neurobiologist might think.

The blue stains in these developing mice embryos show that the human DNA inserted into the rodents turns on sooner and is more widespread (right) than the chimp version of the same DNA, promoting a bigger brain.

The researchers were surprised by the findings because these African apes — our closest relatives in the animal kingdom along with chimpanzees — have been shown to be less aggressive than chimps.

As researchers study the genome in more depth, they hope to find the genetic differences that make bonobos more playful than chimps, for example, or humans more cerebral.

The most recent blow came in June, when FWS stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

In 2002 he reported that a gene known as FOXP2, which plays a role in language acquisition, produces a subtly different protein in humans than in chimpIn 2002 he reported that a gene known as FOXP2, which plays a role in language acquisition, produces a subtly different protein in humans than in chimpin language acquisition, produces a subtly different protein in humans than in chimpin humans than in chimpin chimps.

Members of a tiny tribe in the Amazon jungle that has no words for numbers beyond two can't conceptualize numbers any better than chimps or human infants do, a new study has found.

Thirty years ago, geneticist Mary - Claire King and biochemist Allan Wilson proposed that changes in how genes are regulated, rather than in the proteins they code for, could explain important differences between chimps and humans (Science, 11 April 1975, p. 107).

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.

They found that the chimpanzee Y chromosome has lost lots of genes that are present in humans, which suggests the human Y resembles that of the common ancestor more than does the chimp's Y. Chimpanzees only have two - thirds of the genes present in the human MSY.

The team speculates that detrimental mutations have survived in humans and chimps because these species have had much smaller breeding populations than rodents throughout evolution.

One known difference is in a region called Broca's area, which is also involved in speech and is larger in humans than chimps.

While the specialized adaptations of our hands have long been assumed as a major evolutionary advantage, the human hand is less developed in terms of evolution than that of a chimp, having changed little from the hands of the last common ancestor shared with our simian cousins millions of years ago, scientists report.

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.

That 1975 paper documented the 99 - percent similarity of genes from humans and chimps and suggested that altered gene regulation, rather than changes in coding, might explain how so few genetic changes could produce the wide anatomic and behavioral differences between the two.

The finding shows that this population of cells in the human brain is more similar to that of a macaque than a chimp brain.

Besides the obvious size difference — the human brain is about three times larger than the chimp brain — little has been known about how the human brain and the rest of the nervous system changed in our lineage over evolutionary time.

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.»

Hybrids, those with at least five percent of their DNA from more than one common chimpanzee population were rare, with most of the hybrid chimps born in captivity.

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

If we had continued on the same diet as the chimps, likely we would still be eat grains in the woodlands of Africa rather than sitting here typing on our computers discussing it.

You might recall the female chimp's appearance in the first film as portrayed by dancer Devyn Dalton, but this time around, Cornelia is due for a significant expansion and Greer's husband is likely more excited than anyone.

There were more than forty chimps on Ngamba Island living on a hundred acres of forest, and every one of them had arrived in the same state as Baluku: shivering, terrified, and motherless.

The sanctuary must more than double in size and secure the additional resources it needs for the chimps» lifetime care.

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.

(In the sense that a chimp - sized brain couldn't possibly manage all those augmented functions like syntax, not any more than you could run Windows programs on a 1950 desk calculator.)