(PhysOrg.com) -- Female bonobos are noisy bi-sexual love-makers that call most when mating with higher ranking partners, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2011
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Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, even though we no longer use them ourselves, according to a study by Kirsty E. Graham and Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2023
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The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book.
Evolution
May 1, 2009
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Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language evolved.
Evolution
Aug 20, 2019
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A recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ—the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences highlights the fact that the economic benefits of commodity export for primate habitat countries has been limited ...
Environment
Jun 17, 2019
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These are uncertain times for Myanmar, and for the future of its astonishing biodiversity. Last year, not long before the world awoke to the news that the military had seized control of the country and declared a year-long ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2022
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"The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language," Charles Darwin wrote in "The Descent of Man" (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might ...
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2013
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A Kyoto University research team has revealed that a chimpanzee spontaneously synchronized her tapping to an auditory rhythm. The results are reported in Scientific Reports, a journal published by Nature group, on March 28, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2013
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Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically-structured sentences. The question of where this extraordinary capacity originates ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2022
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By comparing geographic patterns of nonhuman primate biodiversity and human land-use, researchers discovered that areas managed or controlled by Indigenous peoples tend to have significantly more primate biodiversity than ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2022
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