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IN THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION
klippety
by klippety  Yesterday 1:26 PM    1
 Engaged in war over resources, Congo's fighting fractions are decimating the Gorilla population and other Wildlife.
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New Rules for Bushmeat
dollface701
by dollface701  11-16-2008   
 I don't know what the answer is, but I sure wish I did.
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Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  10-30-2008    4
 Pretty amazing.
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The Creative Personality
einbar
by einbar  10-27-2008    5
 " Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity. What makes us different from apes—our language, values, artistic expression, scientific understanding, and technology—is the result of individual ingenuity that was recognized, rewarded, and transmitted through learning."
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Some Damn Dirty Apes are getting very Ugly
papananook
by papananook  10-20-2008    7
 I hate to see the hate being spread and fomented by that scum Palin and others. This is bad, bad, bad.
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Did a Mutation Give Humans Thought? -Scientists Say "Yes"
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  10-16-2008    2
 Imagine if what makes the human so capable relative to its ape ancestors is only a small number of mutations, where could just a few more mutations put us.
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A growing number of scientists argue: human evolution had all but stopped!
einbar
by einbar  10-15-2008    1
 A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
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"Hippy apes make war as well as love"
cakebelly
by cakebelly  10-14-2008   
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Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene?
invictus
by invictus  10-9-2008    1
  In humans, a secondary transition from egalitarian societies to hierarchical states took place as the first civilizations were emerging. How can it be understood in terms of the model discussed? One can speculate that technological and cultural advances made the coalition size much less important in controlling the outcome of a conflict than the individuals' ability to directly control and use resources (e.g. weapons, information, food) that strongly influence the outcomes of conflicts.
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Obama’s Poems Show Real Talent
merrie
by merrie  10-8-2008    4
 .....example of the genre.” Of note, Politico observes that “the temperate legal language doesn't display the rhetorical heights that run through his memoir, published a few years later.” But then somehow, those few years later, this 33 year-old amateur with no paper trail beyond a hack legal note and a poem about fig-stomping apes produced what Time Magazine has called--with a straight face-- “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.” The public is asked to believe that Obama did this on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I don’t buy this canard for a minute. To enhance the science of this literary investigation, I made some inquiries into the academy. . .he encouraged me instead “to do what you're already doing . . . good old-fashioned literary detective work.” Given that advice, I dug deeper into the memoir of the man who, I believe, tortured Dreams From My Father . . .
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Colonial clue to the rise of HIV
rmowery
by rmowery  10-1-2008   
 I wonder how far they will trace cancer back?
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Mother's Milk Not Approved For Consumption
cheapogroovo
by cheapogroovo  9-23-2008   
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Crows make monkeys out of chimps in mental test
Mohir
by Mohir  9-19-2008    4
 To investigate further, the team presented the crows with a wooden table, divided into two compartments. A treat was at the end of each compartment, but in one, it was positioned behind a rectangular trap hole. To get the snack, the crow had to consistently choose to retrieve food from the compartment without the hole. A recent study of great apes found they could not transfer success at the trap-tube to success at the trap-table. The three crows could, however.
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Crows smarter than Chimpanzees
cakebelly
by cakebelly  9-17-2008   
 Not-so great apes To investigate further, the team presented the crows with a wooden table, divided into two compartments. A treat was at the end of each compartment, but in one, it was positioned behind a rectangular trap hole. To get the snack, the crow had to consistently choose to retrieve food from the compartment without the hole. A recent study of great apes found they could not transfer success at the trap-tube to success at the trap-table. The three crows could, however. "They seem to have some kind of concept of a hole that isn't tied to purely visual features, and they can use this concept to figure out the novel problem," Taylor says. "This is the most conclusive evidence to date for causal reasoning in an animal." Three of the crows did fail at both tasks, however. The team plans further work to investigate why. Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1107)
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Church apologises to Charles Darwin over theory of evolution
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  9-15-2008   
 But Dr Brown says everyone makes mistakes, the church included. "When a big new idea emerges that changes the way people look at the world, it's easy to feel that every old idea, every certainty, is under attack and then to do battle against the new insights,'' he writes.
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Mountain Gorilla Revenue Crosses Borders
tabsey
by tabsey  9-9-2008   
 Cooperation.
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“Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  9-7-2008   
 A rapidly evolving sequence from the human genome drives gene activity in the developing thumb, wrist and ankle of mouse embryos, suggesting the sequence may have contributed to key evolutionary changes in the human limbs that allowed us to walk upright and use tools. An indication of their biological importance, many of these non-coding sequences have remained similar, or “conserved,” even across distantly related vertebrate species such as chickens and humans. Recent functional studies suggest some of these “conserved non-coding sequences” control the genes that direct human development.
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"'Human Rights' for Apes"
cakebelly
by cakebelly  9-6-2008    1
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evolution
joturtle
by joturtle  8-30-2008   
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PeTA takes on Hollywood!
dmccluredvm
by dmccluredvm  8-27-2008   
 I hope this bring a better understanding of the chimp situation in the US today.
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Life After Research
dmccluredvm
by dmccluredvm  8-26-2008   
 Is it OK for research to use these apes and then warehouse them or throw them away?
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Stop Pelosi Now! Demand Maximum American Energy – Now!
merrie
by merrie  8-21-2008    2
 Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has a message for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic caucus, and he wanted it delivered at Hot Air. Not surprisingly, then, the Speaker’s latest lethargy proposal apes other energy schemes she’s brought to the House floor without amendment and under a super-majority vote requirement. Desperate to guarantee these bills’ defeats and blame Republicans, the Speaker orchestrated the nauseating spectacle of “Don’t Care” Democrats, who a few months ago wouldn’t vote to drill a tooth, now hugging derricks instead of trees. This time, though, with a month of vacation under her Beltway, Pelosi’s ploy has a new wrinkle. In the media she is floating specious reasons why Republicans will vote against her radical cornucopia of energy insecurity. What she still fails to grasp, as with all her energy scams, is that the public will not be misled.
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What is a Person?
skwirlinator
by skwirlinator  8-20-2008    5
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Proven: Gorillas have human emotions
hitchhiker08
by hitchhiker08  8-20-2008    6
 Heartbreaking!
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Some Parts Of Our Body We Don't Need
tanjazaric
by tanjazaric  8-18-2008    2
 full article on the page
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Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  8-15-2008   
 We started innovating. We tried different materials, such as bone, and invented many new tools, including needles for beadwork. Responding to, presumably, our first abstract thoughts, we started creating art and maybe even religion. To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, Khaitovich and colleagues examined chemical brain processes known to have changed in the past 200,000 years. Comparing apes and humans, they found the most robust differences were for processes involved in energy metabolism. The finding suggests that increased access to calories spurred our cognitive advances, said Khaitovich, carefully adding that definitive claims of causation are premature. The research is detailed in the August 2008 issue of Genome Biology.
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Why Bogart's Kiss Is Your Kiss, His Soda Your Soda
einbar
by einbar  8-12-2008    3
 Mirror neurons help explain how we connect to each others' emotions.
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Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart
iskandar
by iskandar  8-11-2008    1
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Huge boost for lowland gorillas
amgumen
by amgumen  8-8-2008   
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We must address deforestation - now!
bs1999bs
by bs1999bs  8-8-2008   
 The danger signs are very evident - we pursue rainforest destruction at our peril.
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gorillas
silvanaraihane
by silvanaraihane  8-7-2008   
 there are others so click to the link to see them all
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Nearly Half of All The World’s Primates at Risk of Extinction
papananook
by papananook  8-6-2008   
 We're killing our fellow apes.
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Environment under Onslaught
bs1999bs
by bs1999bs  8-6-2008   
 There is no question - we have to get our act together as the prospects for our future become increasingly grim.
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Extinction Threatens Half of Primate Types, Study Says
A53GG4
by A53GG4  8-6-2008   
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Extinction Is Forever!
klippety
by klippety  8-5-2008    1
 Desperation for food and profits, shear greed and absolute shortsightedness is ruling the world. Let's change the rules, NOW!
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Did Upright Walking Start in Trees?
tabsey
by tabsey  8-5-2008   
 So, our ancestors copied the tree dwellers.
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Gorilla 'mother lode' found in Congo
pokkets
by pokkets  8-5-2008    1
 I can't help thinking that they are there, because we didn't know about them, but there are other species that have been downgraded from critically endangered to endangered due to conservation efforts. However the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 48% of the 634 known species and sub-species of primates, humankind's closest relatives such as chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons and lemurs, are at risk of extinction. Primates are suffering most in Asia, with 71% of all species at risk, against 37% in Africa.
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Baby Mountain Gorilla
alochrye
by alochrye  8-3-2008    2
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Wild orangutans treat pain with natural anti-inflammatory
Mohir
by Mohir  7-29-2008   
 After using the leaves, the orangutan dropped them, allowing Morrogh-Bernard and her assistant to find out what they were. The leaves belong to a genus called Commelina, a group of plants that orangutans do not eat as part of their normal diet. However, local indigenous people know the plant well, grinding it into a balm and applying it to their skin to treat muscular pain, sore bones and swellings.
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These people need our continued support
bs1999bs
by bs1999bs  7-27-2008   
 A great cause at a time when destruction is all too obvious. Bravo!!
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