"Locomotion in primates" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 30 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    work in the ecology of primate social system. The book Catching Fire refers to the activities of our human ancestors when they began to use fire to practice cooked diet. Although the topic is pretty academic‚ but Richard used simple sentences and words to explain his ideas well. Yet the proof is still preciseness with provided evidences‚ and the conclusion is convincible. Hence‚ this source should be trustable. About 2‚300‚000 years ago‚ there existed a kind of primate began to use tool. They

    Premium Human Primate Chimpanzee

    • 373 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Neo-Darwinism is the name given to the new age and evidence supporting the theory of evolution which includes the evidence discovered by Darwin and Wallace as well as newly found modern evidence. Neo-Darwinism builds onto previously discovered evidence and combines it with the modern evidence to form strongly supported hypotheses and evidence to support the theory of evolution. Evidence include that of the fossil record‚ comparative anatomy and embryology‚ as well as molecular biology and experimental

    Premium Evolution Fossil Evolutionary biology

    • 1325 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    24‚ 2014. from http://www.dilmahconservation.org/animal-profiles/purple-faced-langur/ Eudey‚ A. A. (1987). IUCN/SSC primate specialist group action plan for Asian primate conservation: 1987-91. Retrieved September 25‚ 2014. from https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/1987-021.pdf Huffman‚ M. A.‚ Kuruppu‚ N.‚ Nahallage‚ C. A. D. & Weerasingha‚ T. (2008). Diurnal primates in Sri Lanka and people’s perception of them. Retrieved September 24‚ 2014 from http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1896/052

    Premium Old World monkey Primate Human

    • 1719 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    these primates’ specimens to study learning‚ cognition and memory. His experiments involved the separation of the newly born monkeys from their mothers. He tried to investigate the significance of baby’s love. Since the young monkeys were brought up in diapers‚ he observed that as they continued to grow‚ they had a tendency appreciating their older diapers. Additionally‚ he found that the young monkeys felt safe while near their mothers. He did this by scaring and torturing these primates by hanging

    Premium Psychology Science Primate

    • 1914 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Baboons are large‚ old world monkeys that reside in many different parts of Africa. They are largely terrestrial non-human primates that spend most of the daylight time on the ground‚ and the night in trees and caves. They live in social groups that can range from around 10 to around 100. An interesting fact about baboons is they are sexually dimorphic‚ meaning that the female baboons only grow to about 50-60 percent compared to the male baboons. Variations in troop mates happens when males are females

    Premium Primate Old World monkey Reproduction

    • 1784 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Unmanned Ground Vehicle

    • 599 Words
    • 3 Pages

    functionality‚ performance‚ or cost‚ posed by the application; • the system’s intended operating area (e.g.‚ indoor evironments‚ anywhere indoors‚ outdoors on roads‚ general cross-country terrain‚ the deep seafloor‚ etc.); • the vehicle’s mode of locomotion (e.g.‚ wheels‚ tracks‚ or legs); • how the vehicle’s path is determined (i.e.‚ control and navigation techniques employed). To reasonably limit its scope‚ this survey will focus principally on the large number of systems where the "long pole"

    Premium Unmanned aerial vehicle Transport Walking

    • 599 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Theory of Mind Term Paper

    • 1194 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Theory of Mind-- Innate or Developed? Ariel Richardson Senior Seminar Professor Middendorf February 1‚ 2011 Introduction What separates mankind from his primate relatives? Is it our mastery of language both written and spoken? Without training and education is mankind so very different from their wilder counterparts? These are questions asked but not as easily answered as one might think. Theory of Mind Many scientists would say that the ability to predict

    Premium Science Mind Cognition

    • 1194 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Best Essays

    EDP360 ASS 2 PROJECT

    • 2392 Words
    • 8 Pages

    RE: Grade 5 & 6 Tabloid Sports Carnival - Proposal Rationale The proposed sports tabloid afternoon provides an opportunity to consolidate the Health and Physical Education lessons conducted throughout the year. Students have been engaged in health and physical movement that have enable them to acquire‚ apply and evaluate fundamental movement skills‚ concepts and strategies confidently‚ competently and creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts and settings (Australian Curriculum‚ Assessment

    Premium Motor control Education Exercise

    • 2392 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    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

    Premium Primate Human Hominidae

    • 1813 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Social Brain Hypothesis

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In primates‚ maintaining non-sexual pair bonds‚ “friendships”‚ involves serious cognitive work and emotions. While studying primates a linear relationship between time spent together and strength of relationship can be seen. The evidence to support these observations include the correlation between the numbers of alliances with the relative neocortex size. Human data on this topic is found to be similar to the observations of primates. With the data given by Dunbar‚

    Premium Population World population Population growth

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Page 1 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 50