Social scientists have studied it‚ lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math‚ science and engineering fields. Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal‚ academic‚ corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains‚ and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible. The
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What are the major groups of primates? I thought that this question was very interesting because primates are the closest living relatives to humans. Primates are fascinating because they resemble a primitive or basal version of ourselves and at the same time are also quite different from us as well. There is a large number of primate species both in the African and Asian continents as well as in the Americas. Those species that are found in Africa and Asia are collectively called old world
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environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape species- the Eastern Gorilla‚ Western Gorilla‚ Bornean Orangutan‚ Sumatran Orangutan‚ Chimpanzee‚ and Bonobo- only the Chimpanzee and Bonobo are not considered critically endangered; however‚ they are listed as endangered. Conservation efforts have
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bodies and smaller social groups than great apes. The Hominidae include orangutans‚ gorillas‚ chimpanzees‚ bonobos and humans.[1][2] Alternatively‚ the family are collectively described as the great apes.[3][4][5][6] There are two extant species in the orangutan genus (Pongo)‚ two species in the gorilla genus‚ and a single extant species Homo sapiens in the human genus (Homo). Chimpanzees and bonobos are closely related to each other and they represent the two species in the genus Pan. Members of the
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know there is strength in numbers. It is clear that animals lack a human’s level of intelligence. Yet‚ animals have shown that they are capable of competency. A Bonobo named Kanzie communicates with scientist by using 384 symbols. Kanzie has also shown evidence of creativity‚ when given a vegetable similar to lettuce the Bonobo labeled the kale as “slow lettuce” due to the time it took to chew. How could an animal without the ability to think make this connection? This clearly shows that animals
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INTRODUCTION Talking about human sexuality last year‚ I was asked whether the different sexual orientations could be found in animals other than humans. Well‚ the answer was “yes”. But sexual orientation is just a bit of the big whole called sexual behavior. That is why in this occasion I am going to talk about animal sexual behavior. To put you in context‚ the study of animal sexuality is a rapidly developing field. It used to be believed that only humans and a handful of other species performed
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Apes and Language: A Review of the Literature By Karen Shaw For Professor Dyer ’s Class March 2‚ 2005 Over the past 30 years researchers have demonstrated that the great apes (chimpanzees gorillas and orangutans) resemble humans in language abilities more than had been thought possible. Just how far that resemblance extends however has been a matter of some controversy. Researchers agree that the apes have acquired fairly large vocabularies in American Sign Language and in artificial languages
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WHAT MAKES US HUMAN This is a question that is asked and wondered by almost every human in this world. The answers to this popular question are actually pretty obvious. Humans have the ability to walk upright‚ communicate in oral and written forms‚ think and solve problems‚ and they have evolved physically and cognitively. Our intelligence to create tools and technology is another unique trait that separates us from other species‚ also our capability to adapt and change to different types of
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thinking.” (Gerrig 233) I’d like to discuss language behaviors in animals. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh conducted research on bonobos‚ a species of ape that is similar to a chimpanzee and closely related to humans. Kanzi and Mulika are two chimps that were studied during this research. With no training‚ these chimps acquired meanings of plastic symbols by observing other humans and bonobos using them. Kanzi and Mulika were able to understand spoken English and basic commands. For example‚ when Sue would tell
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fter watching any of the military training documentaries on the Discovery Channel‚ it indeed appears like some men were born for battle. They absolutely thrive under the high-pressure‚ aggression-filled environment of war. Not to mention‚ they really‚ really like their weapons. It makes you wonder what these men would do if there was no need to fight—could they even survive a desk job?Essentially‚ the question boils down to—are we warring because we have to or because deep down we like it? 9 Internet
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