The more open country of the Gombe Stream Reserve is ideal for field study, though the behavior of apes living there might not be the same as that of apes in the dense forests.
The scientific endeavour itself is founded on values which natural selection would have seemed unlikely to foist on a bunch of violent, gregarious upright apes.
The bone also shows that A. afarensis had abandoned the flexible midfoot that apes use to grasp tree branches, in favor of an arch that makes upright walking more efficient.
Any of various long - tailed, medium - sized members of the order Primates, including the macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, and tamarins and excluding the anthropoid apes and the prosimians.
Ardipithecus, however, was more promiscuous - and may have behaved like modern great apes.
The discovery of a 'missing link' between man and apes could revolutionise our understanding of how we evolved, scientists say.
Not human people, but as occupying a similar range on the spectrum as the great apes, for whom the idea of personhood has moved from preposterous to possible.
The most aggressive apes of all were the bonobos.
To create the brain found in apes, Sherwood says, evolution added a third scoop.
Sometimes I saw a group of chimpanzees feeding in a tree, but seldom managed to get close before the shy apes moved away.
The developmental history of the society tells us that man has evolved from apes.
Lieberman says modern humans, unlike apes, have a special muscle that connects each arm to the neck and head.
Hungry refugees displaced by the two-year civil war in neighboring Congo and forced to eat small apes threaten to wipe out the chimpanzee population in western Uganda, a conservationist said Thursday.
That lemurs can learn socially like their distant primate relatives, including apes and humans, suggests they possess an underpinning to human-like culture.
In this case, the animals were lemurs -a type of primate related to monkeys and apes.
Great apes press their lips together to express excitement, affection, or reconciliation.
It's assumed the viewer just passively watches it and then unthinkingly apes the attitudes and behaviour on show.
In the sixteenth century, English explorer Andrew Battel spoke of man-like apes that would visit his campfire at night, and in 1860, explorer Du Chaillu wrote of violent, bloodthirsty forest monsters.
Long believed to exist only in the brains of humans and other great apes, in 2006 spindle cells were discovered in the same brain areas in humpback whales, fin whales, killer whales, and sperm whales.
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