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    primates with having moist nose are strepsirrhini‚ and primates with dry nose are haplorrhini. In modern day‚ lots of primates still exist in specific regions. For instance‚ ring-tailed lemur is one of non-human primates from strepsirrhini‚ and chimpanzee is one of primates from haplorrhini. Because of living in different environment‚ these two primates have different characteristics and specific social group they involved. There are also many studies are being done with these

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    Chimpanzees are categorized in the order primates; suborder Catarrhini and family Hominidae.They are the closet living relatives. Today‚ there are two species of chimpanzees: Common Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) and bonobo (Pan Paniscus)‚ both are in the same category as humans‚ monkeys‚ and gorillas. Humans share with them 98% of the genetic code and according to experts “believe our common ancestor existed 5 to 8 million years ago. Then two species broke off into separate lineages‚ one ultimately

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    ******* 3.2 Million Years Later ******* “Hey‚ Tom look what I found!” “What is it Donald?” And that’s how it all happened. At least that is how I imagined it happening. My theory is that Australopithecine were creatures in the transitional phase from chimpanzee to human but‚ were in fact more human than like a chimpanzee’s. Australopithecine are more on the human side because they have the ability to walk upright‚ their pelvic area is like a human’s‚ and their jaw are more like a human’s jaw. First

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    skeleton of different primates. I learned a lot of information from this website; that being how closely related humans are with the gorilla and chimpanzee‚ the names of the bones our skeleton is made up of‚ and the size of certain bones in the body. I learned a lot of new things as well; the hands and feet of an adult male human and an adult male chimpanzee are very similar. Both hands contain capitate‚ hamate‚ lunate‚ manual intermediate phalanx 3‚ manual proximal phalanx 3‚ metacarpals 1-5‚ pisiform

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    Chimpanzee Yawning Assignment Answers The author decided to do this experiment‚ with intentions to find out whether human like animals (chimpanzees) identifies with animations as far as (movies‚ cartoons‚ etc.) having emotional connections and empathizing with them‚ us humans do (Matthew W. Campbell‚ 2009). If so‚ they would have a useful tool in animal studies. From reading the research‚ I have found that the chimps were aware of the animated chimpanzees at some point in this experiment. They discriminated

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    Lucy could not answer. AA The structure of the feet is like nothing else seen before. It is the feet of a bipedal hominid but the founding of the medial cuneiform bone tells us that ARDI had grasping feet. ARDI was not like a human or a modern chimpanzee‚ ARDI was an evolutionary mosaic with different traits that were lost and gave way to the

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    Writing Assignment One--Do primates posses culture? I think that if culture is defined as learned behavior‚ than it is reasonable to say that primates posses a form of culture. Primates have been observed making tools to aid in collecting food and developing communication system‚ both of which are learned behaviors. It is common in monkeys‚ apes and humans that behavior and social organization aren’t necessarily programmed into the genes. There have been several cases where an entire troop has

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    capabilities of apes‚ Terrace’s initial experiments taught a chimpanzee American Sign Language‚ studying if chimpanzees could combine words to form new meanings. Terrace conducted his own experiments with chimpanzees because of the potentially dubious integrity of past studies to prove chimpanzees’ ability for thought or language. Terrace’s own results supported Descartes’ idea of animals being incapable of using language‚ his chimpanzee mostly only mimicking its trainers‚ rather than forming its

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    the chimpanzee and the human are distinctively similar due to the 98.8% shared DNA molecule. The bands on the chromosomes and bundles inside of DNA’s almost every cell‚ and the 1100 different genes are almost identical. With that being said‚ humans and chimpanzees are not the same‚ for 1.2% of 3 billion base parts show distinctions when interacting with the function for each gene. Such examples include the growth and development of intelligence for the human in comparison to the chimpanzee. (Museum

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    in the sharing of spoils after collaborative efforts. Among great apes‚ only humans are true collaborative foragers8‚9‚11. Other apes forage in small parties‚ but they do not actively work together jointly to produce food—the only exception being chimpanzee grouphunting of monkeys12‚13. In contrast‚ humans in all societies produce significant portions of their food through collaborative efforts‚ even bringing the results of their labour back to some central location to share with other group members14

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