Quotes Tagged With :primates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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