News tagged with primatologists
Primate archaeology sheds light on human origins
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A University of Calgary archaeologist who is one of the few researchers in the world studying the material culture of human beings' closest living relatives - the great apes - is joining his colleagues in ...
Rumbaugh's theory links positions of Wilson, Skinner
May 01, 2009 |
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When Dr. Paul Naour was looking for a conclusion to his book detailing a previously unknown 1987 tape recording of a conversation regarding human behavior between theorists E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner, he found it at Great ...
Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2009 |
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For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire and maintain behavioral traditions ...
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Primate archaeology, proposal of a new research field
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 16, 2009 |
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The use of tools by hominins - the primate group which includes humans (Homo) and chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan) - has been extensively researched by archaeologists and primatologists, both of who manifest the relevance of ...
New theory on why male, female lemurs same size
Jul 14, 2009 |
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When it comes to investigating mysteries, Sherlock Holmes has nothing on Rice University biologist Amy Dunham. In a newly published paper, Dunham offers a new theory for one of primatology's long-standing ...
Close social ties make baboons better mothers
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Baboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, ...
Scatological clues lead to an intimate view
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. ...
Second Rare Aye-Aye Born at Duke Lemur Center
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Aug 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ardrey and Merlin, rare, nocturnal aye-ayes from Madagascar, are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, a male, early on July 23 at the Duke Lemur Center.
Big brains arose twice in higher primates
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical ...
Infant play drives chimpanzee respiratory disease cycles
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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The signature boom-bust cycling of childhood respiratory diseases was long attributed to environmental cycling. However, the effect of school holidays on rates of social contact amongst children is increasingly seen as another ...
Primate behavior explained by computer 'agents'
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Sep 11, 2007 |
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The complex behaviour of primates can be understood using artificially-intelligent computer ‘agents’ that mimic their actions, shows new research published in a special edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal So ...
New collaborative research reveals chimpanzees can sustain multiple-tradition cultures
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Jun 08, 2007 |
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Scientists have long wondered if local animal cultures exist, and now, based on findings by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, the University of Texas and St. Andrews ...
Color vision drove primates to develop red skin and hair, study finds
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May 24, 2007 |
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You might call it a tale of "monkey see, monkey do." Researchers at Ohio University have found that after primates evolved the ability to see red, they began to develop red and orange skin and hair.
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