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Wild angry baboons on the high cliff

Category: Animals eathing people

...suddenly the troop of wild baboons .... wild angry baboons ... swoops in from all sides, jumping on the humans and pushing them back down the cliff...

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On the Move

Category: primates

On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups, edited by Sue Boinski and Paul Garber is a compendium of academic research on ... well, on how and why animals travel in groups. Notice of this book is a fitting start to a series...

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Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

Category: primates

With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works...

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What I know about Marc Hauser, the recently 'investigated' Harvard primatologist

Category: Science News

I know Marc Hauser, and I trust him. I worked with him for a few years as a colleague on the faculty in the Anthropology department on various administrative matters (such as graduate admission and undergraduate program development) and we taught together. We are very...

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New Primate Fossil Informs Us of the Ape-Monkey Split During the Oligocene

Category: Organisms

Not exactly a missing link, but close. Too bad we ruined the term "missing link" just before this important fossil was reported!

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Keep an eye on the prey: You'll find the predator

Category: Behavioral Biology

Even a basic and widespread mammalian trait is shaped by experience. This should calibrate one's thinking when it comes to assertions that different groups of humans have genetically determined differences in ability.

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Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

Category: primates

Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too....

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Mothers and Others by Hrdy: A Review

Category: Books

Remember Evolutionary Psychology? The theory? It's over....

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Falsehood: Humans evolved from apes

Category: Human Evolution

Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes? How about this one: Is it a Falsehood that Humans did NOT evolve from Apes???? Yes and no. Humans descend from a population of primates from which other apes also descended (minimally the two species of...

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Nyamulagira Volcano and Human Evolution

Category: lost congo memoir

I had mentioned earlier that the volcanoes of the Virugna region in the Western Rift Valley (as well as other highland spots) have often been islands of rain forest separated from each other by different habitats, including grasslands and wooded savannas. this has produced an...

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