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Along the path from our wormy, Cambrian ancestors to primates dressed in suits, innumerable forks in the road led us to this very particular reality.
We evolved as animals, as primates, to survive periods of danger, and if your life has been in danger, you want to react to unfamiliar noises.
We are among the social primates.
It has also some beautiful primates.
But authority in humans is not so closely based on power and brutality as it is in other primates.
And in the case of the primates, we have almost the same genes.
A hundred scientific research papers have been published already, using base editors in organisms ranging from bacteria to plants to mice to primates.
Primates emerge from jungles, as tarsiers first, becoming lemurs not much later.
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest.
Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.
All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
We are human, and we have the capacity to love, we have the capacity to wonder, and we have a sort of boundless curiosity, a restless inquisitiveness that so suits us as primates, I think.
That's especially good that mammals and primates like fruits and bright plants, because you eat the fruit and you thereby spread the seed.
Even the ancestors of primates used to wield these impressive appendages, until their claws evolved into nails.
It’s possible that nails have simply persisted as a side effect of primates evolving wider, more dexterous fingers.
High in the forest canopy where these primates lived, wide finger bones and expansive finger pads were ideal for gripping narrow branches.
By providing a rigid surface to press against, primates could splay out their pads to create even more contact with the trees.
Even if it was possible for wide fingers to sport claws, their sharp points would’ve likely interfered with these primates’ regular tasks.
Meanwhile, some primates, like the aye-ayes of Madagascar, have re-acquired claws.
Primates, on the other hand, we use our mouths more.
Humans, some primates, some bats, the elephant shrew and the spiny mouse menstruate.
That means we were able to stand upright but also for our brain to evolve in the back and for our voice box to grow from seven centimeters for primates to 11 and up to 17 centimetres for humans.
And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and suffering.
Essentially, we are pattern-seeking primates.
These guys are New World primates, which means they broke off from the human branch about 35 million years ago.
No bones of any primates are have been found in the United States or Canada.
On the peak of evolution, we set out into the never-ending adventure as simple primates.
It is highly probable that certain primates were on the phone to their lawyers: the chimps here make you miss Cheeta badly.
Sadly, "The Wizard of Oz" despite being made nearly fifty years beforehand had higher quality special effects as concerns flying primates.
At the outset, I must warn everyone that I am an avid snowboarder and I have worked with many primates.
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