Quotes Tagged With :primate

As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above,....

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

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which....

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

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

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped.....

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage,....

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing,....

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being....

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