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A team of Japanese researchers working with the RIKEN Brain Science now claim that, after conducting several laboratory-based experiments, they have reached the conclusion that primates are well capable of moving in unison.
More precisely, these researchers maintain that the monkeys taken into consideration for thi... |
28 January 2013
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Only a couple of days back, a team of scientists made it public news that, according to their latest findings, the first human ancestor was not all that different from a squirrel.
The world's oldest primate was thoroughly described during the latest annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, whi... |
22 October 2012
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According to researchers at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), the movement patterns of ancient primates could be revealed by analyzing skulls and other fossilized remains left behind by the creatures. The team was part of an international collaboration of researchers that led a new study.
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13 June 2012
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One of the critical evolutionary steps in the history of early anthropoids has recently been understood, after researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of an ancient primate, in Myanmar. Anthropoids include humans, apes and monkeys, so the finding sheds some light on our evolutionary history as well.
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6 June 2012
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A group of experts from the University of Cambridge believes that the earliest humans may have started walking on two feet in order to be able to monopolize resources in their environment. This was achieved by being able to carry a lot more food than other species. Freeing two of the limbs for transporting cargo is... |
21 March 2012
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A species of primates native to the southeastern parts of Asia, called the Philippine tarsiers (Tarsius syrichta), were discovered to communicate with each other using ultrasounds. This is a nearly-unbreakable code, and no other species of primates is known to use it.
The sounds they make are above the highest soun... |
8 February 2012
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Evolutionary “detectives” at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) recently took it upon themselves to identify the reasons why primates exhibit such a wide array of facial features. In order to do that, they analyzed the faces of 129 male primates of different species.
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12 January 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that chimpanzees prefer to collaborate and cooperate with each other only when they have to. If it doesn't serve their own interests, the primates will turn away from a task requiring a group to work together.
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23 September 2011
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According to a new finding, it would appear that ancient hominins had an upright gait more than 2 million years earlier than experts previously estimated. This conclusion is based on an analysis of a famous trail containing ancient footprints made by some of our most distant ancestors. At that time, hominins were not... |
20 July 2011
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Fossils discovered at a site in West Texas reveal the existence of a previously-unknown primate species, that lived about 43 million years ago. This discovery could help experts develop better classifications of the way primates evolved from origins up to this point. The new primate species has been named Mescalerole... |
17 May 2011
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Scientists say that an ancient hominid might need to be renamed, after investigations demonstrated that it may not have consumed the diet experts thought it did. The primate, called Paranthropus boisei, is oftentimes referred to as Nutcracker Man, but it apparently consumed little to no nuts at all.This ancient, bipe... |
4 May 2011
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Researchers have been trying to figure out why chimpanzees and bonobos behave so differently from each other for many years. In a recent study, investigators looked at the anatomical differences that exist between the brains of the two related primate species. Though they resemble each other a lot, the two brains als... |
6 April 2011
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In the first multi-species comparison study of aging patterns in primates, researchers discovered that humans, chimpanzees gorillas and a bunch of other primates grow old in pretty much the same, graceful way. In a research paper describing the findings – published in the March 11 issue of the top journal Scie... |
11 March 2011
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A new series of scientific experiments demonstrate that orangutans can literally copy new information from each other. They also learn new things and abilities just by watching how other member of their species do them, which is something that has not been confirmed in other species before. Humans are good at doing t... |
7 February 2011
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Geneticists announce the successful mapping of the orangutan genome, an achievement that brings the primate within a very select group of species to have their genetic information understood in detail. The success of this endeavor will most likely translate in the development of new tools that could find application ... |
27 January 2011
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It seems that the larger the amygdala is in people, the wider their social network seems to be, according to a team of US researchers.The amygdala is a small almond shaped structure within the temporal lobe, that seems to regulate the social life in primates (according to previous research), humans included.To verify... |
27 December 2010
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Scientists always wondered why humans are more susceptible to certain infectious diseases, than their primate cousins, and now a new study conducted by the University of Chicago, concluded that the explanation lies in the species-specific changes in immune signaling pathways.The researchers carried out the first geno... |
17 December 2010
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According to a new set of investigations, it would appear that the origins of all primate species are not necessarily in Africa, but rather in the Middle East, in regions around Libya. This conclusion comes from a series of archaeological digs, which revealed the existence of no less then four primates that lived in ... |
28 October 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that placental mammals have larger brain sizes because their parents employ useful strategies that promote this growth.Researchers tried to find a connection between body size and brain size, but they only manged to do so for placental mammals. This is very peculia... |
7 September 2010
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A new study reveals that orangutans are capable of communicating with each other, and with human caregivers, by using their ability to mime. The primates can therefore produce pantomime, in order to ensure that the message they are trying to transmit has gotten across. The conclusions are based on two decades of scie... |
12 August 2010
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Anthropologists and paleontologists are currently puzzled over the discovery of a new primate fossil, which apparently does not fit neatly into the evolutionary tree researchers created thus far. The animal exhibits peculiarities that make it somewhat of a black sheep among other primates. The feature that stands out... |
11 May 2010
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Instances in which chimpanzees die naturally have been little-studied over the years, due to their rarity. As such, researchers had very few clues as to how others in a group behave when one of the members dies. But investigators had the chance to look at one such instance more closely in 2008, when a chimp in a Scot... |
27 April 2010
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers demonstrated that one of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, oftentimes prefers to share its food with other members of the species, rather than eat alone. This type of behavior is very interesting to scientists, as not many animals engage in it. Of course, many c... |
8 March 2010
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A newly proposed idea on how early humans and their ancestors evolved states that massive volcanic eruptions early on in the planet's history, coupled with the parting of the first continent, Pangaea, may have played a crucial role in the development of these species. The idea is highly debated in the internatio... |
27 January 2010
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Experts at the University of St. Andrews spent the last five years keeping track of gorillas in the San Francisco Zoo, and analyzing how the primates played games, and generally interacted with each other. The study revealed the fact that the gorillas used a variety of equipments, from bags and balls to small pieces ... |
22 January 2010
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Scientists were puzzled to observe a male chimp in Senegal performing a “fire dance” in close proximity to a raging wildfire in the region. The primates are known for engaging in “rain dances” from time to time, as severe thunderstorms take place, but this is the first time a similar habit has... |
6 January 2010
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it may be that one of the reasons why humans tend to live longer than their ape and primate cousins has something to do with the carnivorous diets we are accustomed to. Evolutionary biologists believe that a diet based on meat may also help our bodies avert cancer, ... |
15 December 2009
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Amid fears that environmental and animal rights groups might have retaliated violently, administrators and other officials running the Oklahoma State University (OSU) decided to pull the plug on an anthrax-vaccine study. The investigation would have claimed the lives of dozen of baboons, which would have been used un... |
8 December 2009
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Humans are known to be one of the few species in the world today that can appreciate art, artificial constructs that play on our capacity to idealize and understand abstract things. Music is at the forefront of this ability. While there are those of us who cannot comprehend the art behind a certain painting, music ge... |
30 November 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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