Sentence examples for as a primate from inspiring English sources

Each of the 38 provinces has a chief bishop or archbishop, known as a primate.

"An opposable thumb is an important part of your adaptation as a primate," Ms. Corcoran explained.

Sasquatch is variably described as a primate ranging from 6 to 15 feet (2 to 4.5 metres) tall, standing erect on two feet, often giving off a foul smell, and either moving silently or emitting a high-pitched cry.

Previously, only macaques had been evaluated as a primate model for WNV vaccine design.

Sloths, which move extremely slowly when they move at all, don't require the sense of balance that a swift, agile creature such as a primate needs.

As a primate adaptation, cognitive universals are particularly important to the study of literature because they, as a cluster of related features that all humans share, allow us to know how someone else's mind is likely to be operating.

Obviously, these tiny brainlike computer entities aren't doing anything remotely as complicated as what a primate brain does.

The results also rectify errors in the Ensembl database regarding the organizational structure of the actively transcribed GLTP gene in Pan troglodytes and establish the intronless GLTP as a primate-specific, processed pseudogene marker.

In contrast, orthologs of the human intronless GLTP gene were found only in primates (Pan, Macaca) and were not present in rodentia (Mus, Rattus) carnivora (Canis), cetartiodactyla (Sus, Bos), or didelphimorphia (Didelphis), consistent with recent evolutionary development as a primate-specific, processed pseudogene.

The following day, he noticed fossil teeth, which he immediately recognized as those of a primate.

For example, the neocortex is 35% larger than predicted for a primate with as large a brain [ 19].