Sentence examples for ape as a from inspiring English sources

This approach involves treating an ape as a fellow social being, with whom one plays and interacts as far as possible as one would with a human child; it also, almost inevitably, results in a style of research where it is exceptionally difficult to control precisely the cues that the ape may be using and even hard to avoid an overly rich, anthropomorphic interpretation of the ape's behaviour.

In this passage, widely quoted by opponents of evolutionary theory, Darwin suggests that the break between "man and his nearest allies" will be widened through the extinction of the great apes, leaving a gap between the more civilised man "and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla".

With an increase in the retrial rate γ and breakdown rate α, APE as well as waiting time decreases.

Wilberforce apparently asked whether the apes were on his grandmother's or grandfather's line (a tasteless joke by Victorian standards), to which Huxley exuding Puritan virtue replied that he would rather have an ape as an ancestor than a wealthy bishop who prostituted his gifts.

This is a pilot study to assess the use of autologous plasmin enzyme (APE) as an adjunct to vitreous surgery in eyes with advanced diabetic retinopathy.

But would she, I wondered, be able to understand apes as well as she understood cattle?

Leakey, on the other hand, took a more phylogenetically based approach and hired scholars to conduct research into the behavior of the great apes as a potential new data source informing hypotheses of early hominid behavior.

* "apes" as a whole, and the "great apes" in particular, are not monophyletic because they exclude humans.

BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamacq has described Fight Like Apes as a "great Misfit band" inhabiting "a lonely place out on the periphery of the indie rock world".

The disease may affect other great apes as well.

A large molecular epidemiology study would be required to improve the documentation of potential natural bidirectional transmission between chimpanzee and human populations living in sympatry, making it possible to evaluate the potential role of African great apes as a reservoir for P. ovale in West Africa.