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1,437 results for: Primates
- Life
Baboons show their word skills
Monkeys learn to distinguish words from nonwords, suggesting ancient evolutionary roots for reading.
- Life
Climate change may leave many mammals homeless
In some places over the next century, projected warming threatens the survival of more than one in three species.
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Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field by Martha M. Robbins and Christophe Boesch, eds.
Tales and photos from primate researchers give readers a vivid look into the lives of apes. Univ. of California Press, 2011, 182 p., $29.95
- Life
Culture results when chimps get cracking
Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts.
- Psychology
Kids flex cultural muscles
Young children, but not chimps or monkeys, generate collective leaps of knowledge.
- Health & Medicine
Chimp brains don’t shrink
Primate studies aim to find out why humans get dementia.
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Letters
Defining the human species Having read “Humans benefited by interbreeding” (SN: 10/8/11, p. 13), I wonder if I have missed what, to me, seems a major change in the definition of “species.” I was taught that the attempted crossbreeding of animals of two different species could result in either no offspring or sterile offspring. If […]
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Letters
Nuclear recycling In all I’ve read in the popular press about spent nuclear fuel, including “Natural catastrophe begets nuclear crisis” (SN: 4/9/11, p. 6), all that is written about is on-site storage or burial. Why is reprocessing of the fuel never seriously considered? I understand that the French have done it successfully for years. Are […]
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Humans
The psychological toll of miscarriage can linger for years, plus bilingual timelines and twisted morality in this week’s news.
- Animals
Furry Friends Forever
Humans aren’t the only animals who benefit from having someone to count on.
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