PRIMATESORANGUTANSOCIAL learningSOCIAL interactionScientific American is the world's premier magazine of scientific discovery and technological innovation for the general public. Readers turn to it for a deep understanding of how science and technology can influence human affairs and illuminate the natural ...
, Robin Dunbar found that the ratio of neocortical volume(新大脑皮层的容量)to brain size can predict the social-group size in a number of species, including bats, cetaceans, and primates, while Simon Reader has demonstrated(证明)links in tool use and innovation to brain size in primates. ...
Robin Dunbar found that the ratio of neocortical volume to brain size can predict the social-group size in a number of species, including bats, cetaceans, and primates, while Simon Reader has demonstrated links in tool use and innovation ...
A true loser, the white-faced saki is someone all primates are ashamed to admit is part of their family. His relatives are also pretty sick of his face looking so detached from the rest of his body. And just when everyone thought things couldn’t get worse, he decided to grow a goatee...
Very funny. Neil is referring to the fact that all humans are descended from apes, and apes and monkeys belong to a group of animals calledprimates. The difference is that monkeys have tails, and apes don’t. Neil Well, I didn’t...
And sexual interactions occur more often among bonobos than among other primates." http://www.primates.com/bonobos/bonobosexsoc.html Now if you would be so kind as to characterize human behavior in a similar format? Although given some of your replies I may be asking too much of you. ...
But humans aren’t the only animals to laugh. We belong to the same family as other primates like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, all of whom laugh. Neil Even rats tickle each other and make squeaky noises like laughter whe...
How did crows get so smart? Crows are intelligent birds, known to use toolsto grab insects from inside trees, to communicate with gestures, and to remember people who've posed a threat. While crows haven't evolved the same brain structures that give humans and primates their intellig...
[00:45:48]Michael Shermer:Well, we're social primates. Often, all this stuff we're talking about, motivated reasoning in general, sorts itself out in its moral tribes or groups that think alike morally that have similar foundational values of what they think is the most important thing in...
This is especially true of our human young, helpless and needy for far longer than the young of other primates. cri de coeur:强烈抗议,大声呼喊 paradox:悖论 One idea is that our distinctive long childhood helps to develop our equally distinctive intelligence. We have both a much longer childhoo...