Quotes Tagged With :primate

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

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake....

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

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

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

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

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

But the largest number of primate species--thirty-four--have a promiscuous system in which females routinely....

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

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