Why Humans Are Important to Studies of Primate DiversityDarren Naish
1The mystery of why humans are the only animals to have chins may have been solved by scientists who suggest that it is connected to the invention of cooking.A paper from the University of Florida tries to explain exactly why humans-unlike all other primates-have chins.A team led by Dr...
Why Mammals Are Called Mammals Gender Politics inEighteenth-Century Natural History -1758, Linnaeus, the term Mammalia, means "of the breast" to distinguish the creatures with hare, 3 ear bones, and a 4- chambered heart. Mammalia is a term focus on reproductive organs and associated with the ...
Why (Most) Humans are More Important Than Other Animals: Reflections on the Foundations of Ethics Specific practices of animal agriculture have come under fire, as well as the entire phenomenon of raising and managing animals in order to eat them or to wear their skin, fur, or fibers. Those...
Key differences in immune system signaling and the production of specific immune regulatory molecules may explain why some primates are able to live with an immunodeficiency virus infection without progressing to AIDS-like illness, unlike other primate species, including rhesus macaques and humans, that...
Notably, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that the loss of the tail allowed humans to become bipedal, according to a 2015 review. "We are the only paper that has ever put together a plausible scenario for how it happened," Yanai told Live Science. "We're now walking on two feet. And...
Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it -- humans, primates, rats -- you find it associated with ...
In contrast to many mainstream contributions on this topic, I emphasize shared behavioral similarities between humans and other primates and outline their underlying mechanisms. These behavioral features shared with other primates include much of our homeostatic behavior and many of our emotions and ...
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Although we have a good working definition of group coordination and have scientifically established that groups of all primates, including humans, are adapted to improve survival, we are less informed about the behaviours that keep groups together and resolve conflicts. Chapter 2 helps to narrow ...