Sentence examples for primate kin from inspiring English sources

And our DNA is, on average, 96percentt identical to our most distant primate kin, some of which are mounted on the wall.

Duane Silverstein, the group's executive director since 1999, recently sent a Dot Earth "postcard" following a visit to two different projects in sub-Saharan Africa working to conserve Homo sapiens' primate kin, chimpanzees and gorillas: I recently returned from Uganda, where I witnessed two successful programs that deserve kudos.

Darwinian-minded analysts argue that Homo sapiens have an innate distaste for hierarchical extremes, the legacy of our long nomadic prehistory as tightly knit bands living by veldt-ready team-building rules: the belief in fairness and reciprocity, a capacity for empathy and impulse control, and a willingness to work cooperatively in ways that even our smartest primate kin cannot match.

Even chimpanzees, our closest primate kin, won't go out of their way to press a lever that delivers food to an unrelated individual (ScienceNOW, 26 October 2005).

Chimpanzees may not have literature and ballet, but some researchers suspect that our close primate kin do have cultural traditions for behaviors such as tool use and grooming.

Evolutionary psychologists ask: What are the implications of human evolutionary history (e.g., living in omnivorous and hierarchical primate groups populated by kin) for the design of the human mind?

It is interesting that spontaneous manifestation of MS pathology and symptoms has only been observed in the human population and is not found in animals, not even in our nearest kin, the hominoid primate (e.g., bonobo, chimpanzee).

Young mice, pigs, goats and even a few primates get signals from their kin which inhibit sexual development; a strange male in their midst, by contrast, really speeds things up.

In contrast, other primates lack reciprocal exogamy and kin lineages are isolated to single communities [35].

The researchers further pointed out that this was not likely to be the earliest case of tuberculosis in hominid ancestors or their close kin, apes and other primates, which are also afflicted by forms of TB.

As a first step to addressing this question, we merge biochemical and genetic analyses to test if olfactory signals offer a reliable means of kin recognition in a strepsirrhine primate, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).