How To Use Primates In A Sentence
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Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
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Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
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As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
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Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.
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Research conducted in nonhuman primates shows male nonhuman primates are more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline.
Science Press Release Synopses
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In truth it is the genetic similarity between humans and primates that makes experimenting on them expedient.
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Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
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But what the newly sequenced genome reveals is that the platypus's male-determining gene, the monotreme equivalent of primates' SRY gene, is not located on any of those five pairs of sex chromosomes.
Archive 2008-05-01
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Those leaf-eating primates have foreguts where lysozyme is found and may have acquired a new digestive function.
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As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.
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Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Curious about the stage of fruit maturation preferred by other wild primates, I sent out a brief survey.
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Superior intelligence and the use of language distinguish man from the other primates.
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Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
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Like our own hands, those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision.
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He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
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However, some primates such as apes, spider monkeys, and lorises have morphological and behavioral specializations that may enhance efficiency during vertical climbing.
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Primate biologist Dr David Chivers of the University of Cambridge compared the cast with those from other known primates and local animals and concluded that it was definitely an ape with a unique blend of features from gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee and human.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
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Singing evolved independently at least four times among nonhuman primates, contends Geissmann.
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The bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas), howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul), and red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) are all eastern Amazonian primates.
Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests
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This problem is compounded by the fact that humans and other primates lack the enzyme urate oxidase, which is responsible for the breakdown of uric acid.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Even then, it's mostly old-world primates who are trichromatic; for new-world monkeys, only some females (depending on individual inheritance rather than species) are trichromatic.
Drunk On Color
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Among mammals, the carnivores, primates, and tenrecs all have fairly well-established African connections.
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Here we show that the P3A exon is present only in primates and man and it is conserved through primate evolution.
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Three species of primates are endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift, the Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei, EN), the Udzungwa red colobus (Procolobus gordonorum, VU) and the mountain dwarf galago (Galagoides orinus).
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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The early Eocene is important for another reason: many orders of fossil mammals (especially primates, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, rabbits, whales, and bats) make their first appearances in the fossil record.
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They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
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Aids, for example, infects some primates without causing illness or death, and has probably lived in them in a commensal relationship for generations.
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One of the world's most diverse primates, lemurs range in size from a mouse to a medium-size dog.
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At least one of the devoured primates, an early ape called Proconsul, is thought to have been an ancestor to both modern humans and chimpanzees.
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The primates being experimented on in laboratories share over 95 per cent of their DNA with you.
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The silky sifaka lemurs are among the most critically endangered primates in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
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Even within our own class, mammals, roughly 300 new species have been discovered in the first decade of this century—mostly rodents, but also marsupials, a beaked whale and a slew of primates.
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One can agree that LGT will likely not interfere with a robust phylogeny for primates that indeed recreates ancient splittings of their populations, without buying in to the notion that the supposed sisterhood of Thermotogales and Aquificales [two bacterial phyla — OT] revealed by a small subset of their shared ribosomal protein genes reflects an even remotely similar evolutionary process.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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The CGß gene first arose in the common ancestor of the anthropoid primates (New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans), after the anthropoids diverged from tarsiers.
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Lamarck had already recognised that the descent of man from a series of other Vertebrates -- that is, from a series of Ape-like Primates -- was essentially involved in the general theory of transformation which he had erected on a broad inductive basis; and he had sufficient penetration to detect the agencies that had been at work in the evolution of the erect bimanous man from the arboreal and quadrumanous ape.
Evolution in Modern Thought
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Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea
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Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man from the other primates.
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This superorder comprises primates, colugos, bats, and tree shrews.
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The things to be balanced I guess are, the Primates are in some sense people well equipped to speak for the wholeness of their particular region or local church, at the same time there's a sense that all of our Anglican communities are also synodical bodies in which the senior bishop is not the only voice.
Final press conference at the Lambeth Conference
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Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
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Genipa americana, Lemaireocereus griseus, Pristimera vernicosa, Ruperchtia ramiflora The Park has isolated populations of caiman (Caiman crocodylus), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), margay (Leopardus wiedii), and primates of the genus Alouatta.
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
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Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear.
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Notable among these are primates, tree shrews, dermopterans, and bats.
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As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless.
Archive 2006-08-01
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In 2006, the number of capuchins at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, soared and the population grew to 130, said executive director Stephen Rene Tello.
Pet capuchin monkeys can turn on their owners, experts warn
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I've also recently posted regarding the supraordinal clade euarchontaglires and the Asian origin of primates at Sinanthropus
We flightless primates
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The remainder of the volume consists of quite thorough summaries split into five major fossil groups: prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, hominoid primates, and human ancestors.
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THE HUMAN BRAIN The suborder including all the remaining primates is Anthro-poidea (an'throh-poi'dee-uh; "manlike" G), and within this grouping are the monkeys, apes, and man himself.
The Human Brain
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The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas.
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Numerous primates, including chimps, baboons, black lemurs and capuchins, dip into the jungle pharmacy to combat parasites.
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In a report highlighting the 25 most endangered primate species, conservationists have outlined the desperate plight of primates from Madagascar, Africa, Asia and Central and South America, with some populations down to just a few dozen in number. golden headed langur, which is found only on the island of Cat Ba in north-eastern Vietnam, is down to 60 to 70 individuals.
The Guardian World News
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When monkeys were inoculated with the vaccines, the primates' immune systems mounted a response against either the Ebola or Marburg virus.
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On the whole, the hedgehog appeared to evolve at a rate not significantly different from those of Primates, Proboscidea, and Rodentia but faster than those of Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla.
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Thus the kingdom Animalia contained the class Vertebrata, which contained the order Primates, which contained the genus Homo with the species sapiens - humanity.
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Unlike Primates, extreme differences in diet can be found in other mammalian orders such as Carnivora.
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The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas.
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For example, among polygynous mammals, and thus among most primates, mothers in the best physical condition were originally expected to overproduce males.
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Comparing primates to humans makes apes of us all.
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The ancient teeth and jawbones of the tiny, monkeylike creatures shed new light on the poorly understood evolution of early anthropoids, a suborder of primates that includes apes, monkeys, and humans.
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Primates, including humans, have three cones and can thus distinguish three of the primary color phases, giving us trichromatic vision, or high color resolution.
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Several serial duplications in the beta subunit are found in apes and Old World monkeys but not other primates.
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Could some birds really be as intelligent as primates such as chimpanzees or bonobos?
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While the extendable flaps of indriids and some other primates are proportionally smaller than the patagia of most gliding and flying tetrapods, they are in the same place and seem to serve the same function, so it seems appropriate to give them this name.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
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The existence of behavioral chains indicates that olfactory or haptic cues are important to primates, but such hypotheses must eventually be tested by careful direct observation in the field or laboratory.
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These are home to several fauna like the endangered Nilgiri tahr, marten and primates like the langur.
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Other experiments find the same numerical understanding in nonhuman primates, including macaques and tamarins, and in dogs.
Is God an Accident?
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They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
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Besides eating fruit, primates consume leaves, nuts, insects, and other prey.
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However, the rate of GH evolution in the bushbaby (a prosimian) was similar to those in nonprimates.
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Lots of animals, including many primates, engage in coercive sex.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry”
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Stuart said the same approach could be applied to a range of species in Asia, including the wild water buffalo, several types of primates and the gaur, the largest cattle on earth.
Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger
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The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
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However, in the anthropoid primates, which include the monkeys and apes, eliminating sexual motivation does not eliminate the capacity for sexual arousal and mating.
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With the exception of a few anomalous primate genomes, such as the hylobatids, most of the catarrhine primates appear to possess very large, conserved ancient linkage groups.
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Accordingly, the hypothesized deterrence of ethanol to frugivorous vertebrates, or specifically primates, is unsubstantiated.
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The most famous of the island's animals are lemurs, large-eyed primates that leap through the trees.
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The hominid fossil record shows a very clear progression in all of the key human traits - brain size relative to body size, bipedality, dentition, the use of tools, and cultural sophistication - from the miocene primates to modern humans.
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I'm referring to non-human primates, most commonly referred to as monkeys.
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The rich fossil record from the early Eocene Bighorn Basin includes the remains of the most ancient primates, hoofed animals, and carnivores.
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Of the primates, the endemic species Javan gibbon Hylobates moloch (CR) and Javan leaf monkey Presbytis comata (EN) occur locally along with the endemic silvered leaf monkey P. cristata, while crab-eating macaque Macaca fascicularis (LR) is found throughout the park.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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The researchers said capuchins are well-suited subjects for study since they are relatively large-brained primates, skilled problem solvers, and a close evolutionary neighbor to humans.
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Prominent and distinctive in this profile are the nose and the well-defined chin separating modern humans both from prehuman ancestors and from other, contemporary primates.
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These are home to several fauna like the endangered Nilgiri tahr, marten and primates like the langur.
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No one lightly goes into experimenting on primates or any other animal.
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The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates.
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Here I show that softening texture also characterizes the fruit ripening process, and that color is of ambiguous importance to primates possessing trichromatic vision.
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Today there is a variety of extant species that parasitize birds, reptiles, and rodents, as well as human and nonhuman primates.
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Primates are rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta and langur Presbytis entellus.
Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
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Until now, babbling had been observed only in humans and a few primates, such as pygmy marmosets.
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Unlike other primates, the human foot is not prehensile - that is, not able to grasp objects with the aid of an opposed first digit like the thumb.
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It was in fact a spiral trochoid joint with a cuneiform convexity in all the simian primates except for the humans.
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Well, according to “Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans” (Wrangham, Wilson, and Muller 2006, Primates 47: 1)
Matthew Yglesias » The Tragedy of Agriculture
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Are there aerodynamic effects in leaping prosimian primates?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
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Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
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The dichotomic segregation of AOB glomeruli has been described in opossums, rodents and rabbits, while Primates and Laurasiatheres present the Gαi2-pathway only, or none at all (such as apes, some bats and aquatic species).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Now we're learning that lower primates can get the blues, too.
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Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
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In April, I attended the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion in my capacity as staff to the Presiding Bishop.
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The code states: "Primates used for entertainment and in the media are often removed from their social group and hand-reared, causing distress to the infant, mother and other members of the group.
Animal charities want Costa Coffee to drop advert that stars monkeys
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Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man the other primates.
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With nonhuman primates like macaques, the learning process occurs through observation.
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Such as the finding that primates apparently traded olfactory receptor genes for trichromatic vision.
A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
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Primates, insectivores, and condylarths are recognized by the beginning of the Cenozoic, and by the start of the Eocene, most modern groups had become established.
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I found published tables of data on limb proportions, where it turned out that indriid lemurs are closer to Homo in femur: tibia: pes ratios than any other primates.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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You see it in nonhuman primates, where the new alpha male comes into the troop and mates.
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As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly.
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As earthbound primates, humans generally interpret the concept of acceleration within the boundaries of rectilinear translation.
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the subhuman primates
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Presumably, these relatively open habitats favored larger groups as they did for chimps and baboons, the two other open-country primates.
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A research proposal on the effects of radiation in primates is just one of twelve studies that NASA has chosen to fund through its Human Research Program grants for space radiobiology research.
NASA to Fund Primate Radiation Research | Universe Today
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Some of the factors (including differences in testosterone level) which are associated with intrauterine stress are also associated with dermatoglyphic asymmetry in humans and captive primates.
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Scientists believe that the two branches of primates - apes and humans - diverged five to eight million years ago and evolved along separate paths.
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Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.
ZooBorns
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Dr. WILLIAM JUNGERS (Anthropologist, Stony Brook University): When animals walk bipedally other primates it is often in the context of carrying, whether they are carrying food items, stones.
Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
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At the April 26th meeting, NIH agreed that such experiments might be pursued in animals, including non-human primates.
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The apes are a category of primates represented in Africa by gorilla, chimpanzees and bonobo.
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For example, primates rely more on vision than olfaction; for rats, the opposite is true.
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Previously, primates had exhibited right-hand preferences in captivity but no handedness in the wild, leading scientists to speculate that they became lateralized through interacting with humans.
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In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories.
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In people, nonhuman primates, and other mammals with relatively large brains, the cerebral cortex's convolutions permit its large surface area to cram inside the skull.
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Well, maybe in the US they are, but in large tracts of the world non-human primates are bushfood, and fair game outside of national parks and reserves.
Paul Nelson makes a bizarre argument - The Panda's Thumb
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Primitive primates called lemurs fill the ecological roles of woodpeckers, squirrels and monkeys.
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He also cited evidence of self-fellation in nonhuman primates to conclude that oral sex is "a biologically normal aspect of sexuality.
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Theoretical modeling of fruit spectra into the trichromatic color space of catarrhine primates yielded similar results.
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In contrast, most New World primates, such as the tamarins and marmosets of South America, are dichromatic, having just blue-sensitive and green-sensitive opsins.
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When Jane Goodall first witnessed and wrote of chimps eating meat, our notion of these primates as passive herbivores changed completely.
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We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy.
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It is important to realize that, though Primates are viewed as omnivorous, they are omnivores of a very particular type in that the great majority of their foods each day come from plants.
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As earlier research had shown, they found a major split among lice species that live on apes and on monkeys and other primates.
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The almost perfect colinearity of chromosome 20 sequence in humans and mouse could be interpreted as evidence that their form was ancestral to primates.
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NASA sent 'hogtied' chimps and other primates into space to die there circling in the lonely void.
Indybay newswire
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Another important trait that apes share with man and other primates is the opposable thumb.
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The performers had to make their way across the net by getting in and out of the clothes, perching and hanging, twisting and slithering their way through the canopy like primates.
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It urged a ban on any use of human cells in chimps and other primates, however, as well as the introduction of animal cells into human embryos.
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Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
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The other small primates like bush babies are pottos.
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Paleocene faunas were dominated by what we refer to as archaic mammals: condylarths (archaic ungulates), archaic primates, small rodent-like multituberculates, pantodonts, and others.
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Sharing is rare in primates and the chimpanzee behaviour may indicate the sources of human mealtime ceremonials.
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This feature usefully serves other primates, which consume considerable amounts of ripe fruit: rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre.
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Thus, from an ad hoc analysis of the mtDNA of mammalian representatives, we cannot gain conclusive evidence for a sister group relationship of dermopterans and primates.
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The fact that the Calabar and Golden angwantibos (Arctocebus calabarensis and A. aureus) remain some of the least studied nocturnal prosimians and are also listed as endangered makes it essential to increase our knowledge of these secretive primates.
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Anatomists cite many more examples of such inefficient or useless structures, such as nipples in male primates.
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Genipa americana, Lemaireocereus griseus, Pristimera vernicosa, Ruperchtia ramiflora The Park has isolated populations of caiman (Caiman crocodylus), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), margay (Leopardus wiedii), and primates of the genus Alouatta.
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
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Our catalogue lists 2,318 specimens: wild pigs, deer, cattle, gazelles, sheep and goats, rhinos, bears and other carnivores, primates, and even some marsupials.
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The mammals include long-tounged bat Scleronycteris ega (VU), two endemic primates, the white uakari monkey Cacajao calvus calvus which is found only within the Reserve and the blackheaded squirrel monkey Saimiri vanzolinii.
Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
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A few other primates, such as the Barbary Ape, have the word ape in their common names usually to indicate lack of a tail, but they are not regarded as true apes.
Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb
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However, if present day anthropoids are any indication, early primates were quick to take advantage of these new arboreal plant foods.
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Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man from the other primates.
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Humans evolved from insectivore, like most of the primates, to scavenger to hunter and the more meat we ate, the larger and bigger our brains and our bodies got.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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The emergence of primates, with their close-set eyes and stereoscopic vision, coincided with the appearance of flowering plants and the new host of insects that fed on them.
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Crow believes the authors of these papers want to find precursors of language in nonhuman primates to support a theory of graduated evolution.
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First, there is no evidence from anthropology or from studies of subhuman primates that a ‘primal horde’ dominated by a single male ever existed.
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After all, other primates cooperate, said anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, who specializes in reproductive strategies of old-world monkeys.
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But humans don't behave that way. anthropologist Robin Dunbar posited that primates have neurobiologically-based limits to the size of their social networks.
GigaOM
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Primates, particularly anthropoids, are noted for their considerable cerebral complexity.
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In Peloponnesos the Primates were all-powerful, and Kolokotrónis the klepht was meditating a popular dictatorship at their expense.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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Drills once congregated by the thousands in the rainforest. Now they are among the rarest primates.
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It is well known that stress deranges the immune systems of human beings and non-human primates alike.
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Besides viverravids, the collection includes oxyclaenids, arctocyonids, triisodontids, pantolestids, taeniodonts, phenacodontids, mioclaenids, pentacodontids, periptychids, proprimates, and a multituberculate.
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Like other primates, these apes exhibit humanlike qualities - from careful parenting to the use of tools.
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The great mammalian megafauna are flourishing, and the hominid primates have become increasingly skilled at the use of fire and tool-making.
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos
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She said animals used for testing in phase one trials were mainly rodents and primates, in particular macaques and marmosets.
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Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man from the other primates.
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The mammals include long-tounged bat Scleronycteris ega (VU), two endemic primates, the white uakari monkey Cacajao calvus calvus which is found only within the Reserve and the blackheaded squirrel monkey Saimiri vanzolinii.
Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
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But certainly across the primates, and I've watched quite a lot of primates copulating, there's remarkably little indication that the female gets any pleasure whatsoever from a rather transitory brief copulatory encounter.
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Eight primates are found here including the bearded saki (Chiropotes albinasus), red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), and tiny titi monkey (Callicebus moloch), which is found in few other places.
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests
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Many animals, primates and others, also have some kind of opposable thumb or toe.
Clipmarks | Live Clips
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To control for fundamental differences in the primate radiations, we restricted our analyses to catarrhine primates.
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In marmosets and tamarins - the little South American monkeys that are, besides us, the only full-fledged cooperative breeders among primates - a female has to be ready to be a helper this year and a mother the next.
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Various yelps, hoots, screams, squawks, and other vocalizations are used by many species of primates and birds to herald the approach of predators to relatives and other members of the same species.
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Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
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It has been independently lost or reduced in several amniote lineages, however, including crocodilians, birds, tuataras, iguanian lizards, cetaceans, and catarrhine primates.
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If you believe in evolution, you believe man is descended from primates, and primates are vegetarian.
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We examined these effects on the recovery of divergence dates within anthropoid primates and between two murine rodents, the mouse and the rat.
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Because other primates do not understand intentionality or causality they do not engage in cultural learning of this type.
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They conclude that the gene began to deteriorate after the split between New and Old World primates but before the Old World monkeys and apes diverged.
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The Hadar hominid would have differed from most primates, in which both these vertebrae are involved in formation of the first costal capitular joint.
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Just a bunch of howling from craphurling naysaying lower primates.
Think Progress » Ridge Defends Napolitano From Right-Wing Attacks: The Criticisms Are ‘Misplaced’
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Reite and colleagues monitored heart rate, respiration and basal body temperature using biotelemetry implants in infant primates who were separated from their mothers.
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In primates, prosimians and Old World monkeys exhibit a moderate level of the enzymatic activity relative to mice and rabbits.
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MCM: Lots of animals, including many primates, engage in coercive sex.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry”
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Non-Human Primates A lesson in statutory construction.
The Weekly Law School Roundup #124
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In primates the larynx is located high up in the windpipe and prevents solids and liquids from entering the lungs.
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The Jane Goodall Institute is fighting very hard for legislation that will prohibit people from owning other primates as pets.
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Both the parapithecids and extinct and extant platyrrhines show extensive postorbital closure, which is not found in primates from North America (Fleagle and Kay, 1997).
1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)
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Paleocene faunas were dominated by what we refer to as archaic mammals: condylarths (archaic ungulates), archaic primates, small rodent-like multituberculates, pantodonts, and others.
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3 Several “junk DNA” features are shared with Chimpanzees and other primates, such as retroviral transposons inserted into specific genes.
Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb
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The pallium is a white woolen vestment worn by the Pope and sent by him to patriarchs, primates and archbishops.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
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Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
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‘That resulted in the anthropoid primates - which we are one of - which had better vision all around, compared to the earlier primates that only had to deal with constricting snakes,’ Isbell said.
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See too many primates pinned in stereotaxic devices?
Yale Murder Peels Back Plexiglas Curtain of Animal Research
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Research on primates reveals that when resources are centrally located, the primate troupe will organize itself hierarchically, with an alpha male taking the leadership and the rest of the troupe deferent to that leadership.
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Other endangered primates now include lemurs in Madagascar, tamarins in Brazil, langurs in Vietnam, orang-utans in Sumatra, and gorillas and a variety of monkeys in Africa.
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There are over 50 species of mammals present including opossums, bats, primates such as capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), squirrel monkeys (Saimira sciureus), howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) and Guianan saki (Pithecia pithecia), giant ant-eater (Myrmecophaga triactyla), carnivores including jaguar (Panthera onca), puma (Puma concolor), and ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), ungulates and rodents including the capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris).
Guianan mangroves
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He also cited evidence of self-fellation in nonhuman primates to conclude that oral sex is "a biologically normal aspect of sexuality.
