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Daryl Bambic

Chimps Trade Meat for Sex -- And It Works - 3 views

news.nationalgeographic.com/...090407-chimps-meat-sex.html

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  • hare meat with females double their chances of having sex with those females
  • More surprising was that males shared meat with females that didn't have sexual swellings, perhaps in hopes of future success, the researchers say.
  • he fact that the chimp males also shared meat with females not in heat could also add new fire to the debate about chimpanzees' cognitive abilities
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    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 03 Sep 13
       
      What do you think the male chimp's behaviour might indicate?
    • Tyler David
      Tyler David on 03 Sep 13
       
      That he knows, since he is doing something for the female now, he is hoping that in the future she will pay it back in the form of sex.
    • Ethan Crystal
      Ethan Crystal on 03 Sep 13
       
      To me, it indicates some common ways of thinking between us humans and the chimps
    • joco26
      joco26 on 03 Sep 13
       
      This behaviour may indicate that the chimps have some sort of intellect. They are able to process the outcome of events, which in this case is a trade of meat for sex. 
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 03 Sep 13
       
      The male chimps behavior may indicate further signs of social structure in the primate community and mating rituals are far more sophisticated than what we thought. 
    • jonah-e
      jonah-e on 03 Sep 13
       
      that he really wants to reproduce and he is willing to trade it for his food. So it shows some sort of planning ahead and they are becoming more intellectual 
    • Brandon Sigal
      Brandon Sigal on 03 Sep 13
       
      The fact that he is giving her meat even though she is not ready to have sex shows that he is planning for the future. The monkey is showing that he has the ability to give something in hopes to get something in return soon.
    • Marc-Anthony Palacios-Castellana
      Marc-Anthony Palacios-Castellana on 03 Sep 13
       
      It shows how the chimps are evolving and staring to make connections between giving the females meat and recieving sex
    • Chris Dimopoulos
      Chris Dimopoulos on 03 Sep 13
       
      The male chimp is willing to do what it takes to breed
Talya Freidman

So Like Us | About Chimpanzees | Chimpanzees | the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada - 2 views

www.janegoodall.ca/about-chimp-so-like-us.php

shared by Talya Freidman on 12 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Chimpanzees and humans differ by just over one percent of DNA. In fact biologically, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than t
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
       
      This reminds me of what we learned in class, about how similar our DNA is to chimps, it only differentiates by one letter in the DNA code.
  • and humans differ by just over one percent of DNA. In fact biologically, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans tha
  • than t
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  • Chimpanzees become sexually mature between the ages of 10 and 13
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
       
      Chimp babies mature a lot faster than human babies. However at the same time, there is also a higher rate of mortality for the young chimps.
  • both have an insatiable appetite for play, are extremely curious, learn through observation and imitation,
  • The anatomy of the chimpanzee brain and central nervous system is startlingly similar to our own.
  • Chimpanzees and humans belong to the animal order “primates”
  • belong to the superfamily hominoid
  • Chimpanzees and humans belong to the animal order “primates”.
  • Large brains
  • opposable thumbs
  • flexible joints
  • belong to the superfamily hominoid
  • chimpanzees and humans share the most similar genetic makeup, sharing 98.6% of our genes.
  • Females show their first very small sexual swellings at age eight or nine, but are not sexually attractive to the older males until they reach age 10 or 11.
  • almost every young chimp gets lost from their mother at some point during their exploration.
  • chimps have a long childhood
  • Bonds
  • likely to persist throughout life.
  • This learning is the means by which certain actions are passed from one generation to the next—the beginnings of culture.
  • capable of intellectual performances
  • capable of reasoned thought
  • memory
  • symbolic representation
  • feel and express emotions
  • chimpanzees can be taught human languages
  • skills on computers
  • wide range of complex emotions
  • possess an almost human-like enjoyment of physical contact, laughter, and community.
  • chimpanzees can learn from humans
  • Language is believed to have played a major role:
  • Talya Freidman on 12 Dec 11
     
    This website mainly describes the similarity between apes and humans as well as some of the main differences. Jane Goodall's discoveries are also mentioned briefly.
Talya Freidman

Chimps R Us- Frontiers Profile: Jane Goodall - 1 views

www.pbs.org/...goodall2.htm

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shared by Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • it's qui
  • te an okay subject for study for a Ph.D.
  • e an okay subject for study for a Ph.D.
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  • still a hard core of people who are very resistant
  • doing invasive experiments on animals
  • made a difference with the way the world views chimpanzees
  • Has it made a difference in the way scientists view them
  • It's much better to cling to the old ideas that animals are just little machines and they have stimulus and response
  • It's a communication
  • sophisticated brains
  • haven't during evolution developed a sophisticated spoken language
  • not capable of planning the distant future
  • can't
  • discuss an idea
  • communication is very immediate
  • Mike learned to use empty kerosene cans because he was very low ranking
  • He accidentally hit an empty 4-gallon kerosene can and noticed that other chimps ran away
  • Within 4 months, he'd risen to the top
  • never saw him fight
  • Only Mike capitalized on that and developed the technique and won.
  • Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
     
    This is an interview where Jane Goodall explains and discusses her discoveries.
Talya Freidman

PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Chimps R Us:Frontiers Profile:Jane Goodall - 1 views

www.pbs.org/...goodall3.htm

shared by Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • adopted by a 12-year-old, non-related adolescent male
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
       
      Through this example, we see how caring chimps really are. Even in humans, females are stereo-typically the care-givers, but even male chimps can prove this stereotype wrong.
  • welcomed him in
  • . And even risked irritating the big adult males.
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  • It's clearly male-dominated.
  • matriarchy within the family is very strong
  • When you watch a young male growing up, all his relationships begin to change. He begins to dominate the females
  • it's completely amazing how even a fully adult male is usually very respectful of his ancient mother.
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 14 Dec 11
       
      Humans, in general, are also respectful to their parents even once they've grown up and become an adult.
  • And she hears this and she comes charging over, rushes up the tree, and hauls herself on this melee of three enormous males. I think the two others were so amazed that they stopped attacking Satan
Catherine Preston

Female Chimpanzees and Tool Use: Animal Planet - 0 views

animal.discovery.com/...chimp1.htm

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    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 03 Sep 13
       
      ANNOTATIONS ON NEXT PAGE AS WELL
Marie-Lise Pagé

Deep Thoughts on What Makes Humans Special | LiveScience - 1 views

www.livescience.com/p-thoughts-humans-special.html

humans mind unique

shared by Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • share characteristics with humans such as politically motivated aggression, empathy and culture, but humans take them to a level without parallel among animals
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
       
      Like we saw in the video Ape Genius
  • ey fall short of humans when considering secondary theory of mind
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  • uch capabilities allow humans to enjoy delicious stories with layers of intrigue and gossip,
  • humans can commonly extend empathy over time and space
  • exceptions as a mental illness that afflicts humans and animals alike.
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers ritualistically act out the same behavior again and again.
  • apolsky suggested two reasons not to worry
  • ne of the few differences between humans and chimps comes from the amount of cell division for brain cells
  • human behaviors stand out by reaching levels of complexity unseen in any other part of the animal world, according to a neurobiologist
  • What makes humans special comes in no small part from the sheer quantity of available brain power – at least 300,000 brain cells for each neuron in a fruit fly brain.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
     
    This website has a lot of information to help me in my project because it really helps me understand what makes the human mind unique. I also like that it compares to the Apes. It expalins the diffrences between the Apes and us. It also explains what makes us Human. However, it has a lot of scientific vocabulary that's hard to understand.
Lauren Ganze

Neanderthals, Humans Interbred-First Solid DNA Evidence - 1 views

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Neanderthal Human relations DNA shared anthropology evolution

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    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 14 Dec 11
       
      did they disappear solely because of other hominid species (humans)?
  • The results showed that Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 percent identical to modern human DNA, versus, for example, 98.8 percent for modern humans and chimps, according to the study.
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  • Neanderthals, like modern humans, are thought to have arisen on the continent.
  • Though no fossil evidence has been found for Neanderthals and modern humans coexisting in Africa,
  • interbreeding occurred just after our species had left Africa
  • Neanderthals, the study team says, probably mixed with early Homo sapiens just after they'd left Africa but before Homo sapiens split into different ethnic groups and scattered around the globe.
  • 60,000 years ago
mauromongiat

Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit - 0 views

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Homo_floriensis evolution specie anthropology brain origins

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    • mauromongiat
      mauromongiat on 09 Dec 11
       
      The homo floriensis Would be a small human if it did'nt have such a small brain. The fact that the brain of the homo floriensis is so small is a proof that it is a different specie from the homo sappien.
  • The brain size of the floresiensis skull is extraordinarily small, at 380cc. This is as small as any australopithecine ever discovered, and fairly typical for a chimpanzee. (Chimps range from about 300 to 500cc, averaging about 400cc, but are physically bigger than floresiensis.) This is smaller than would be expected even for a dwarf form of Homo erectus, and suggests there was active selection for a small brain size for some reason. (Human pygmies, incidentally, are nothing like H. floresiensis; their brains are almost as large as those of normal-sized humans)
Catherine Preston

An introduction to the John Scopes (Monkey) Trial - 0 views

law2.umkc.edu/...evolut.htm

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  • Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925.
  • The Scopes Trial had its origins in a conspiracy at Fred Robinson's drugstore in Dayton
  • American Civil Liberties Union announcement that it was willing to offer its services to anyone challenging the new Tennessee anti-evolution statute.
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  • The conspirators summoned John Scopes, a twenty-four-year old general science teacher and part-time football coach, to the drugstore
  • Dayton. Darrow was not the first choice of the ACLU, who was concerned that Darrow's zealous agnosticism might turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion
  • Nearly a thousand people, 300 of whom were standing, jammed the Rhea County Courthouse on July 10, 1925
  • Judge John T. Raulston, the presiding judge in the Scopes Trial
  •   William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for President and a populist, led a Fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin's theory of evolution from American classrooms
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      YELLOW= PEOPLE GREEN= ACTIONS
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      PINK= FLAWS IN THE TRIAL
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      BLUE= MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE TRIAL
  • The proceedings opened, over Darrow's objections, to a prayer
  • Judge Raulston and his entire family listened attentively from their front pew seats.
  • Judge Raulston
  • A jury of twelve men, including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • A jury of twelve men
  • moved to quash the indictment on both state and federal constitutional grounds. This move was at the heart of the defense strategy.  The defense's goal was not to win acquittal for John Scopes, but rather to obtain a declaration by a higher court--preferably the U.S. Supreme Court--that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional
  • Judge Raulston denied the defense motion.
  • As expected
  • titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance
  • if evolution wins, Christianity goes.
  • The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis,
  • asked seven students in Scope's class a series of questions about his teachings
Daryl Bambic

Mike Morwood: Archaeologist whose 'hobbit' discovery sparked fresh debate on human evol... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...n-human-evolution-8773287.html

hobbit evolution

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  • far from being the linear narrative of successive waves of colonisation out of Africa, as once thought, the process was, in fact, one with numerous twists and turns involving many different species.
  • among the most outstanding discoveries in paleoanthropology in over half a century.
  • because the cave also unearthed sophisticated stone tools similar to others found around the world in Homo erectus sites
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  • Flores tools were tiny, the right size for people of only 3ft tall with a brain the size of a chimp or grapefruit
  • Remarkably, the skull was found in a layer of sediments dating back only 18,000 years, long after the Neanderthals had vanished from the face of the Earth, having lost the evolutionary battle to Homo sapiens, the sole human species on Earth by then. This had huge ramifications for the varying theories of human evolution.
  • it could have been a descendant of Homo erectus that arrived early on Flores, perhaps using boats, and which, becoming stranded, evolved its petite size as an adaptation to the limited food supply available.
  • They also proposed the unimaginable, that Homo floresiensis lived contemporaneously on Flores with Homo sapiens.
  • Detractors
  • isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
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