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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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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... |
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Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes? [Greg Laden's Blog]This is another falsehood, but a tricky one. Remember the point of falsehoods: They are statements that are typically associated with meanings or implications that are misleading or incorrect, and in some cases downright damaging. "Humans evolved from apes" is an excellent example of... |
