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Scientists were recently puzzled to find out that monkeys too had the ability to care for their grandchildren. The investigation, which was conducted on a group of Japanese macaques, proved that, when needed, grandmothers took their nephews in, and cared for them as their mothers would have. This is the first instanc... |
23 November 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency are currently getting ready to perform a new series of radiation tests on a group of squirrel monkeys. The study will attempt to determine the possible effects that prolonged radiation exposure may have on astronauts during long-duration spaceflight to other planets, such as to... |
12 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Humans are one of the few species of animals that can sense and protest to injustice. For a long time, our self-righteousness made us believe that we were the only ones able to do this. We also considered ourselves as the only ones capable of feelings and altruistic behavior, but that too was proven false. Now, anoth... |
12 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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A team of paleontologists from three American universities has recently discovered a new species of primates that is not related to humans in any way. The find was made about 40 miles from Cairo, in Egypt. The lead researcher for the new investigation has been paleontologist Erik Seiffert, from the Stony Brook Univer... |
22 October 2009
01:45 GMT |
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Macaque monkeys revealed a new way of interpreting the origins of music and language when scientists discovered that, when the primates drum on trees or logs, the same neural network involved in communicating is activated. This find seems to suggest that, in primates, the vocal and nonvocal communication systems may ... |
17 October 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Evolution in a biological context roughly translates into a species' ability to favor the passing on of genes that ensure its survival into the next generation. In order for this to happen, mutations must occur. Mutations generate diversity, but can also have adverse effects on a species, and lead to its extinct... |
24 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Figuring out the differences between orangutans, chimpanzees and humans is not a complex process in itself. Any person given a photo of the primates, and one of a human, could easily point out at least a few dozen of them. But the mystery of what made us uniquely human after we became separated from primates evolutio... |
2 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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People are, consciously or unconsciously, influenced a great deal by the music they listen to, be it happy, sad, jumpy, depressive, or mellow. Their response is almost immediate, and researchers have been curious to know exactly where this habit originated from for a long time. However, investigating this proved to b... |
2 September 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Primates and humans have been recently proven to have yet another thing in common, that is an immune system component that was apparently so effective at doing its job that it was retained in bodies for 60 million years, long before we separated from apes through evolution. This amazing ability is the production of a... |
19 August 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Anthropologists have for a long time suspected that behavioral mimicking is a type of behavior that appeared in humans in order to facilitate the formation of bonds and friendships between total strangers. This conclusion was reached after studies indicated that certain people tend to imitate the body postures or man... |
14 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Chimpanzees have over the years been associated and compared with humans both in terms of appearance and mental prowess, but a growing sentiment among academics has it that the primates will never be able to actually invent things. This trait, which involves high abstractionism skills and planning ahead, seems to be ... |
22 July 2009
19:11 GMT |
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In a new groundbreaking study, experts have managed to demonstrate that cotton-top tamarins are able to identify the words in which syllables are placed in an incorrect order. The find holds a great significance for studying the origin of language, and especially for its non-verbal components, which the scientists sa... |
8 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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New studies on whales' behavior have come to a rather surprising conclusion – these marine animals may be as intelligent as apes are, or maybe even more. Anthropologists believe that the whales developed intelligence millions of years before the last ancestor of primates and humans did. For this reason, so... |
26 June 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The latest issue of the Journal of Biogeography holds one of the most interesting hypotheses of this year – namely the theory that humans are not as much related to chimpanzees as previously stated, but rather to orangutans. The new paper, written by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Mu... |
18 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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In an attempt to understand how humans, as a species, got their general intelligence, researchers at the Harvard University conducted a series of tests on the cotton-top tamarin primates, assessing each individual's ability to perform in them. The study revealed that the levels of cognition varied significantly ... |
17 June 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Humans have been until recently the only known species that did not seek to maximize its daily energy intake from foods, but rather planned its diet over a longer time-frame. However, a new ecological study conducted in the Bolivian rainforest has proven that wild spider monkeys do the exact same thing, planning thei... |
20 May 2009
19:51 GMT |
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A fossil discovered in Germany has the potential to change the way we look at our own evolutionary pattern, its discoverers say. The 47-million-year-old “missing link” is about 20 times older than any of the other preserved remains of our ancestors, and it's also 95 percent complete, which means that... |
20 May 2009
03:08 GMT |
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A new research, conducted on wild western lowland gorillas in the central parts of Africa, shows that the primates used hand-clapping as a form of communication, something that had only been observed once before. Females employ this type of behavior most often, and they clap to get the attention of both males and inf... |
9 May 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs have attempted to control the neural activity inside the brain of a primate using lasers, for the first time in history. This type of effort is not a new one, and previous attempts of doing that focused more on flies, rodents and fish. However, the most ... |
30 April 2009
03:41 GMT |
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According to a new growing consensus in the scientific community, dogs are more close to humans than primates, even though the latter share many of our genes. The researchers who advocate this point of view say that dogs have become closer to us after 10,000 to 20,000 years of common evolution. Over this period of ti... |
27 March 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is the home of several primates and a few chimps. One of them has recently offered a surprise in terms of behavior, when caretakers have observed the animal actively planning ways to harm visitors that approached its cage. It has been seen chipping away at the concrete walls surrounding its ... |
10 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Scientists have finally managed to provide us with a potential answer to an ancient mystery, namely why we follow the gaze of others, to see what they're looking at. It could be only curiosity, but, according to a new paper published in a recent issue of the journal Animal Cognition, this behavior is innate in a... |
3 February 2009
10:58 GMT |
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We all know that men and primates are the two most distinctive species on the evolutionary scale thus far, simply because our brains are larger and more complex than those of other creatures. Now, researchers place our ability to perform delicate tasks, such as bending our fingers at will and moving our shoulders, to... |
13 January 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Unlike humans, who have to pay the price for drinking too much in the evening the next morning, pen-tailed tree shrews and a few species of other animals that consume small to large amounts of alcoholic nectar on a regular basis do not feel the effects of their habit. This is because these species have evolved to a s... |
29 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Duke University has shown in a recent experiment that small primates use up roughly the same amount of energy while climbing as they do while walking. The new finding could reveal why the tiny human ancestors chose to live a life in the trees more than 65 million years ago. The study involved five different species o... |
16 May 2008
10:12 GMT |
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