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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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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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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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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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:24 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Not exactly a missing link, but close. Too bad we ruined the term "missing link" just before this important fossil was reported!
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Remember Evolutionary Psychology? The theory? It's over....
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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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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