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Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence - Telegraph - 1 views

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ape genius intelligence animal

shared by Joe Inhaber on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • By Paul Eccleston
  • 5:00PM BST 02 May 2008
  • Chimpanzees in Senegal make and sharpen spears with their teeth to go hunting. Like our own ancestors they have learned to use tools to kill their quarry more effectively.
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  • the skills to make a lethal weapon.
  • Ape Genius - which gives a fascinating insight into the depth of intelligence of animals who share 99 per cent of human genes
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  • Although they can be taught to recognise symbols and words they don't have the mental capacity to contribute to a 'conversation' - and they don't make small talk
  • And most important of all although they can imitate, they can't teach or build on the achievements others have made - unlike more successful humans.
  • But if apes have the power to reaso
  • n, learn skills, feel emotion and co-operate in a frenzied tree-top hunt for Colobus monkeys as chimpanzees do, why don't we have a planet of the apes?
  • Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
     
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Daryl Bambic

Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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neanderthal homosapiens evolution

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  • Daryl Bambic on 19 Dec 11
     
    Why homo sapiens survived and the other hominids did not.
Daryl Bambic

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

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hobbit evolution

shared by Daryl Bambic on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
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  • isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
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