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Editorial: Ardi, Humans and PrimatesThe discovery of a 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, called Ardi, demonstrates how quickly early hominids moved down a separate path of evolution from primates. ... |
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Altruism & the apes [Gene Expression]Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries has a piece up for Seed, where he reviews Franz De Waal's newest book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Also a post, Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in Science is worth a read. I'll respond to Michael at some point ... |
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Chimpanzees Empathize with Animated ApesComputer animations of yawning apes stimulated contagious yawning in chimps. ... |
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T.25 City Car Modular Three-Seat Layout Apes McLaren F1 [New Cars]Gordon Murray's revealed the layout for his pending T.25 City Car. It's a modular central driver system flanked by two rear passengers just like his legendary McLaren F1 super car. This takes the T.25 from just-another-microcar to something very interesting. Vomitously dubbed "iCentre,"... |
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Why did apes 'knuckle walk'?Erect posture and bipedalism as a preferred mode for life and locomotion are uniquely human traits. Much debate has centered round the origins, time and sequence of the hind-limb weight support and propulsion characteristic, a hominid attribute. In my line of work, anatomy, I have probed a litt... |
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Dan Agin: Book Review: Not A Chimp--Genes, Apes, and HumansSome people argue that humans are merely crazy apes, but the counter-argument, that humans and apes are dramatically different, is not easily dismissed. Truly, it's a question of focus--and the focus often depends on hidden philosophical attitudes. Western religions, for example, abhor the idea t... |
