Sentence examples for close primate relatives from inspiring English sources

By comparing the vocal tract of humans and their close primate relatives, researchers can get a sense of which particular traits were necessary for the emergence of speech.

However, empathy biases have not been tested in our close primate relatives.

Humans have more fixed genetic differences in CNS development genes, compared to our close primate relatives; therefore, phyloP identifies mutations in these CNS development genes.

Unfortunately, these reports have thus far been limited to one or few loci, whereas genomewide searches for homologous human microsatellites have to date been limited to comparisons with chimpanzee (Kayser et al. 2006; Vowles and Amos 2006; Kelkar et al. 2008) or other close primate relatives (Raveendran et al. 2006).

An early close primate relative known from abundant remains is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55 58 million years old.

Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way Homo sapiens does.

So why are we vastly different from our closest primate relatives?

"Eating Apes" is an examination of the slaughter, for food, of humanity's four closest primate relatives.

Humans actually have tremendously large penises compared to closest primate relatives.

tests — to adult chimpanzees and orangutans (two of our closest primate relatives) and to 2-year-old human children.

Dogs, and probably many other animals (especially our closest primate relatives), seem to have emotions just like us.