Quotes Tagged With :primate

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don’t build houses or churches or Pentagons....

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.....

Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three....

Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus....

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals....

Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it....

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching....

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators,"....

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to....