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And it's not just true of humans but their primate relations, our primate relations as well.
But given what we know about the habitats of our primate ancestors, it’s more likely that nails came with their own powerful advantages.
Looking at our primate relatives, we can see that the palmaris longus is sometimes absent in those that spend more time on the land, but always present in those that spend more time in trees.
We have got, under our skin, a layer of fat, all over: nothing in the least like that in any other primate.
It's the only possible explanation of why humans, if they're very unlucky, can become grossly obese, in a way that would be totally impossible for any other primate, physically impossible.
But to put that in context: 5.93 million years ago was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.
That was the first upright primate.
So let's start with calls of a nonhuman primate.
You know, she's a smart, very cut creature, a primate as well, but she lacks all the stuff we think might be messing us up.
But it shrunk to 60 percent of primate gut of my body mass.
I loved the way the monoliths never changed, although primate, earth and space did.
This monkey nudity only served to make the primate more "human" so I can understand it's inclusion in the film.
The very uncool camera angles and quotes like "Come here you sexy bitch" just makes you think that the movie is made by some sort of primate with the brain the size of a peanut.
Two primate behavior scientists arrive at a mountain top research station to find their predecessor frozen to death under strange circumstances.
Cha-Ka is nothing more than a perverted primitive primate, as well as Will.
I remember it as being fantastically eerie, and the primate members of the cast were magnificent!
While Homo sapiens evolved as a particular species of primate, there are no clean breaks between our biology and that of other species.
Japanese primate researchers assumed that each individual animal had a distinct personality, and they did not hesitate to give their subjects names.
But while Jane Goodall was describing female chimpanzees and their dependent offspring as the only socially bonded units in the primate world, a Japanese team, working only 130 kilometers away, eventually proved that chimpanzees live in large communities with stable memberships.
Imanishi's influence is now pervasive - all primate scientists have adopted the technique of following individuals over time, and animal culture is the hottest topic in our field.
The plot then takes another turn when Caesar becomes too big and aggressive to live in a human home, and is taken to what is supposed to be a primate sanctuary, but is in fact a dumping ground for unwanted apes, run by humans who display cruelty to the captive animals.
Nim was born in 1973, in a primate research facility in Oklahoma, and was taken from his mother when he was only ten days old, to be used in a sign-language experiment.
Herbert Terrace, the Columbia University psychologist who was directing the project, decided to end it and sent Nim back to the primate facility in Oklahoma.
Humans, like other primate groups, focus their attention on the leader.
For most of our evolutionary history, human beings – and our primate ancestors – have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.
Recently it was pronounced extinct - the first documented extinction of a primate since the 1700s.
“Collaboration” implies free will and choice; even primate males do not succeed by dominating or controlling females.
Although we now think of academic disciplines, including the humanities, as being “research-led,” this understates the university’s historic role in converting the primate Homo sapiens into a creature whose interests, aspirations, and achievements extend beyond successful sexual reproduction.
Since humans evolved from the same primate ancestor as modern chimpanzees or gorillas, he suggested one could learn more by comparing human instincts, emotions, and behaviors to those of animals than one can surmise from subjective speculation.
We share alpha-male dominance with our primate cousins, but prestige – a form of “payment” that predates money, wages, and stock options – is quintessentially human.
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