Wrangham describes how humans have some different abilities than chimpanzees‚ although there are some positives there are also drawbacks. Humans have long legs and less arch in out feel enabling them to walk longer distances and better upright on the ground. Chimpanzees have shorter legs and more arched feet which makes them better tree climbers. Similarly‚ chimpanzees have much longer digestive tracts‚ which allows them to digest raw foods better than humans. Humans have evolved to use fire to
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Animal Behavior Observations Lab I. Introduction: The Allen’s Swamp Monkey is a “strong‚ stocky primate” covered in a gray and greenish fur. The toes and fingers of the monkey are webbed which allows them to swim well. The males are usually larger than the females and they are really active primates. Their origins can be traced from the Congo Basin to western Zaire. The habitat of the monkeys is limited to swamp forests. In behavior they are mostly active during the day and are tree-dwellers. Their
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The difference between chimpanzees and bonbons may seem petite‚ but they are not as similar as people may think. The differences like their diet‚ socialization within each species‚ and population really divides their species. Other things like the chimpanzees and bonobos facial and body features also give a viewer an understanding of their differences. When it comes to the bonobo’s diet‚ they do not eat meat. Chimpanzees‚ however‚ do. The two monkey’s diets are relatively close‚ but there are significant
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The Aye-aye is one of the most interesting primates in the world. It is a very unique animal because it has a lot of traits that are specific unto itself. An example of the Aye-aye’s unique traits is that according to National Geographic “Aye-ayes are the only primates thought to use echolocation to find prey.” This is just one of the many unique characteristics that only the Aye-aye possesses. The Aye-aye is threatened by a lot of things that cannot merely decide to stop attacking it. They attack
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One of the first people Alan goes to see is a person who believes chimps have more similarities than dissimilarities with humans. To explains one of their similarities as a type of politics. He believes that like humans chimps also develop a type of politics. He shows this by giving the chimps to watermelons and observing what the group of chimpanzees does with them. The two watermelons are taken by the two biggest males in the group while the females are left with nothing. The females begin to pester
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The Tell-Tale Brain The book‚ The Tell-Tale brain explains how humans are unique in the world. This uniqueness stems from the brain we humans possess. The human brain has evolved according to 2 different methods. The first‚ most commonly known‚ is biological evolution. This type of evolution is slow and can take centuries for a single‚ subtle change to appear. While the second‚ is the cultural evolution. This type is fast compared to biological evolution. These two evolutionary processes gave birth
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According to “Our True Dawn‚” the differences between the methods used by the geneticist and the paleontologist in determining when our ancestors split from the apes was based on physiological and molecular connection. With the development of the molecular clock scientist were able to determine the connection between ancestors that paleontologists would put aside if the connection was difficult to connect. As a result‚ we can determine the time ancestors’ mutations were created and how mutations
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Can monkeys eat banans good as gorillas ? That pretty dumb but not dumb as how fast they can eat it in 10 seconds. You can get so into seeing this you might want to watcha video on it when you go home. If you think about it you can compare and contrast the way the monkey and gorilla act eating the banana. This can be the same way like comparing and contrasting our commuittee and jonas society. There so many ways you can compare our commuittee and jonas society. One good way is that we have high
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Effects that Culture have made on the physical changes of the human beings. Name: Wong Hiu Ying Student ID: 08253457d Date: 30th September‚ 2008 Effects that culture have made on the physical changes of the human being. Culture is one of the representative characteristics that reflecting the norms of activities of human within a certain area‚ namely the society. There’s no single modified definition of culture‚ however‚ by referring to the United Nations Educational‚ Scientific and Cultural
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Explain how Lucy could be viewed as “the missing link” Australopithecus Afarensis‚ commonly known as Lucy‚ can be seen by many scientific and historic facts as ‘the missing link’. Anthropologists show that Lucy is a transitional fossil which helps prove the way hominids changed throughout the ages. Bipedalism is the biggest and most important evidence that Lucy has shown to tell one how she lived in the chain of evolution. The morphology of Lucy’s skeleton has so many different characteristics
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