As our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) provide an opportunity to explore the origins of hominin social cognition, including empathy. Despite certain assumptions that bonobos and chimpanzees may differ empathically, these species appear to overlap ...
As our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) provide an opportunity to explore the origins of hominin social cognition, including empathy. Despite certain assumptions that bonobos and chimpanzees may differ empathically, these species appear to overlap...
aWhy do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 per cent of every human population that has ever lived appears to...
The Japanese wolf is more closely related to the ancestor of dogs than any other wolves found so far, according to a study that sequenced the genomes of nine museum specimens of the species, which went extinct more than a century ago. “I did not expect this conclusion at all,...
Chimpanzees' hands have long fingers with short thumbs and flat fingernails like those of humans. /VCG Conservation groups have been working to help preserve chimpanzees across Africa. They are helping to improve the lives of people living close to the habitat of chimpanzees and educat...
In one of the closest living relatives of animals, the choanoflagellateSalpingoeca rosetta, we find that rosette colony development is induced by the prey bacteriumAlgoriphagus machipongonensisand its close relatives in the Bacteroidetes phylum. Here we show that a rosette inducing factor (RIF-1) ...
Dr Dolittle machines: How AI is helping us talk to the animals Advertisement “It’s really extraordinary to see the possibility of another species on this planet having the capacity for communication,” saysDaniela Rusat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We used to believe th...
as larger and denser concentrations of people provided greater opportunity for disease to be passed from host to host. Animal domestication may have brought people into contact with new diseases previously limited to other species. Working the soil would have exposed farmers to insects and other path...
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These metabolites can have an effect on the organisms living in the seawater, either inhibiting or promoting their growth. For any individual organism, the amount of metabolite secreted is small. But the effect of secretions by all the individuals of the dominant species can be significant both ...