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And so, my fellow primates, let us embrace this gift from evolution and play together, as we rediscover creativity, fellowship and wonder.
If we look across many, many different species of animals, not just us primates, but also including other mammals, birds, even marsupials like kangaroos and wombats, it turns out that there's a relationship between how long a childhood a species has and how big their brains are compared to their bodies and how smart and flexible they are.
To put that number into perspective, here's a graph comparing the 40,000 species of spiders to the 400 species of primates.
There are two orders of magnitude more spiders than primates.
Cetaceans and primates have also an autobiographical self to a certain degree.
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
I think morality is much more than what I've been talking about, but it would be impossible without these ingredients that we find in other primates, which are empathy and consolation, pro-social tendencies and reciprocity and a sense of fairness.
I started doing some research then, and this was the 25-year journey, and started finding out that actually human beings as primates have far smaller stomachs than should be the size for our body weight and far larger brains.
Now, I do an enormous amount of research on empathy, and I don't have time to go into it, but empathy is nowadays a topic that we study in rodents and dogs and elephants and primates, all sorts of animals.
Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
You know, in primates, there is this phenomenon called sexual dimorphism, which simply means males are larger than females and males have larger teeth than the females.
Some reptiles become birds, some mammals become primates, some primates become monkeys with tails, and others become the great apes, including a variety of human species.
We know primates do.
Take rodents and primates, for instance: In larger rodent brains, the average size of the neuron increases, so the brain inflates very rapidly and gains size much faster than it gains neurons.
We are primates, so the correct comparison is to other primates.
And all of you are primates.
So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative cost of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.
We knew that primates and elephants and dolphins could do that, but compared to bats, they have huge brains.
Studies of humans and some other primates have found that we pay more attention to faces that signal threats over neutral faces, particularly when we’re already on high alert.
He was perplexed by the sexual swellings of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females.
It's very common in many phyla, from invertebrates to avian species, mammals, and, of course, even in primates.
It is now clear that the amygdala of mammals, including primates like us, can show neurogenesis.
My lab got our first indication of this when actually we were studying non-human primates.
What species of primate do you think is even more divergent from the wild primates than the captive primates?
So they were more different from the wild primates than those in the zoo.
The other primates have scent glands in other parts of the body.
Other primates have a slanted brow.
Following this research, other studies on humans and primates have also shown that contagious yawning occurs more frequently among friends than strangers.
We're inherently these social primates.
These brainy primates were not particularly fast or strong.
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