It seems that a big brain does not mean only higher intelligence, but also a longer life, according to a new research published in the Journal of Human Evolution. The largest brain of a terrestrial animal is that of the elephant, weighing 10.5 pounds (4.78 kg). And the elephants are known to live up to 60 and more. S... |
22 April 2008
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Before the human settlement on the island, around 200 AD, the island of Madagascar (off eastern Africa) was inhabited by huge birds weighing one half of a tonne and huge lemurs as big as gorillas. Lemurs are the most primitive primates and, even today, Madagascar still represents their heaven, the island comprising t... |
7 April 2008
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Today, North America is a land of prairies and oak or coniferous forests. But once, it was a tropical paradise and like any tropical environment, monkeys were present. Now, a research published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" describes the earliest-known primate to inhabit North America. The 55.... |
17 March 2008
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Gorillas split from the branch that evolved towards humans and chimps about 10 million years ago, thus gorillas are equally related to us as to chimps. Gorillas have been split in two species. Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) have silverback males (the male leader of a gorilla family has the back whitish) with a ve... |
26 November 2007
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The 2004 South Korean claim regarding human cloning proved false. Meanwhile, a team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Portland could have achieved the cloning of monkey embryos and the extraction of stem cells from them, a huge step towards human cloning. The research could be published soon in the sc... |
14 November 2007
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Scientists were taken by surprise when they found out about the existence of a new population of De Brazza's monkeys, a threatened species in eastern Africa, in Kenya, far away from the wet forests of central Africa, good news for those hoping to save the world's primates.A recent report signaled that habit... |
6 November 2007
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Human are primates. Our closest relatives are the apes, monkeys and lemurs. But the question is: which group of mammals is closest to primates?A new genetic research claims to have closed the debate: it's not the tree shrews, once even included amongst the primates, but the colugos, also called flying lemurs, sq... |
2 November 2007
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Cutting and burning forests are a menace to our living relatives: apes and monkeys. The last refuge of the primates is attacked, but they can also be victims of pouching and illegal wildlife trade. Constructions of roads inside the forests exposes the primates to human exploitation even more. "Primates in Peril: The ... |
29 October 2007
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Red is hot, but you should know that most mammals do not perceive it. That's why it is a privilege that people and primates can detect it, a gift of the evolution. And soon after getting the ability to perceive red, primates evolved red and orange skin and hair, as shown by a team at Ohio University.Humans, apes... |
25 May 2007
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Women are deceiving, men first hit and after that ask. This characterized us ever since we were just some "monkeys" in the forest, also shaping our brains differently. A new study published in the online journal BMC Biology shows that brain structures have developed differently in primate males and females due to div... |
11 May 2007
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Today, US looks mostly like a place of prairies and oak/pine forests. But once, here was a tropical paradise and like any tropical environment, monkeys did not miss. A team of anthropologists from Lamar University investigating South Texas fossil deposits discovered, based mainly on ancient teeth, that this zone har... |
3 April 2007
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