Sentence examples for modern primates and from inspiring English sources

Matthew Carrigan and Steven Benner biologists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida along with colleagues there, sequenced ADH4 proteins from 19 modern primates and then worked backward to determine the sequence of the protein at different points in primate history.

Context-specific calling behaviour appears to be widespread and therefore was likely present in the ancestor of modern primates and humans.

We discuss the implications of our results for hypotheses on the adaptive origins of modern primates, and identify branches along which brain mass has increased greatly or at a high rate, or along which brain mass has decreased in either absolute or relative terms.

It is the most complete skull ever found of a euprimate, the first mammals that shared characteristics such as forward-facing eyes and a large braincase with modern primates, including lemurs, apes, and humans.

These alternative splice forms seem to be restricted to modern primates (human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon) and have been discussed in detail elsewhere [ 36].

In contrast there is strong evidence for a trend of increasing absolute and relative brain size (Table 1; Figure 5) suggesting that the expansion of the primate brain has been of major evolutionary significance across the modern primate phylogeny and throughout primate evolution.

The discovery of a euprimate in Asia means that "modern" primates were already widespread by then and that their common ancestor must have evolved even earlier.

A primate skull found in China challenges the notion that the earliest primates were nocturnal and lends support to the theory that modern primates originated in Asia.

Cooked food freed humans from needing to spend half the day chewing tough raw food in the way most other modern primates do – compared to apes, modern humans have much shorter digestive systems and our jaws are much weaker.

Such studies suggest that early primates had acquired a number of features of neocortex that now distinguish modern primates.

The head of a Homo sapiens is larger than other modern primates because the skull needs room to enclose this large brain.