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1,437 results for: Primates

  1. Life

    Nature’s chronic boozers

    Tree shrews pub-crawl nightly from flower to flower for fermented palm nectar.

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  2. Life

    Aging gets with the program

    A study on yeast organisms reveals checkpoints in the aging process: the buildup of certain lipids and fatty acids, and the health of the cell's powerhouses. Drugs could target these checkpoints.

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  3. Life

    A honeybee tells two from three

    Honeybees can generalize about numbers, at least up to three, a new study reports.

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  4. Primate’s Progress: Macaque genome is usefully different

    A group of 35 labs has unveiled a draft of the genome of the rhesus macaque, the most widely used laboratory primate and a cousin to people.

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  5. Animals

    Cousin Who? Gliding mammals may be primates’ nearest kin

    Two species of small, little-known rain forest mammals may be primates' closest living relatives.

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  6. Animals

    Peril of play

    A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.

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  7. Computing

    Video Search à la Web

    Finding videos on the web can still be a hit-or-miss proposition.

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  8. Humans

    Bypassing paralyzed nerves

    Implanted electrode helps paralyzed monkey clench its forearm muscles.

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  9. Anthropology

    Loud and clear

    Skulls of Neandertal ancestors show the prehistoric humans had a hearing capacity similar to present-day people, suggesting human speech could have originated much earlier than previously thought.

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  10. Humans

    Symbolic snacks

    Capuchin monkeys can reason with tokens as they do with different foods, demonstrating a basic capacity for thinking symbolically.

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  11. Animals

    Dolphins wield tools of the sea

    A long-term study of dolphins living off Australia’s coast finds that a small number of them, mostly females, frequently use sea sponges to forage for fish on the ocean floor.

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  12. Psychology

    A genetic pathway to language disorders

    Researchers suspect a newly uncovered regulatory link between two genes contributes to language impairments in a range of developmental disorders.

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