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Jun 16, 2008 · Experts explain how and why we find things funny and identify the reason humor is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance ...
- Viruses Influenced Gene Sharing Between Neanderthals and Humans
Apr. 21, 2021 — A new study is the first-ever to identify...
- Attention
Attention is the cognitive process of selectively...
- Viruses Influenced Gene Sharing Between Neanderthals and Humans
Jul 6, 2015 · When we – Homo sapiens – first appeared about 200,000 years ago we weren't alone. We shared the planet at least four other upright cousins; Neanderthals, Denisovans, the "hobbit" Homo ...
Sep 1, 2018 · FOLLOWING in the steps of others—social learning—has been a key to the success of Homo sapiens as long as it has existed as a separate species. Here members of the San group in Namibia walk ...
- Kevin Laland
Sep 1, 2014 · In Tomasello's view, shared intentionality is an evolutionary adaptation unique to humans—a minute difference with momentous consequences, rooted in an inherited predisposition for a degree of ...
- Gary Stix
- Speech. No one enjoys a good gab session like humans. But why can't apes, our closest living relatives, talk like us? After all, the shape and function of the larynx and vocal tract are fairly similar across primates, comparative studies have found.
- Upright posture. Humans are unique among primates because our chief mode of locomotion is walking fully upright. This way of moving frees our hands up for using tools.
- Nakedness. We look naked compared with our hairier ape cousins. Surprisingly, however, a square inch of human skin, on average, possesses as many hair-producing follicles as a chimpanzee's (Pan troglodytes) skin, a 2018 study in the Journal of Human Evolution found.
- Clothing. Humans may be called "naked apes," but most of us wear clothing, a characteristic that makes us unique in the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees have been documented adorning themselves with items — one wild chimp wore a knotted skin "necklace" made from the leftovers of a slain red colobus monkey, a 1998 report found, while a captive chimp in Zambia started wearing grass "earrings" that she had draped over her ears, a fashion trend that spread to her fellow chimps — but these adornments didn't protect or insulate the chimps from the elements like human clothes do.
Oct 7, 2015 · Homo sapiens, also called ‘modern humans’ by anthropologists ... Still, it certainly predates Homo sapiens, showing that fire is far from being unique to us, as Charles Darwin once opined.
This ability — to quickly manipulate multifaceted symbols in the service of even more intricate conceptualizations — may be an essential distinguishing feature of Homo sapiens (Deacon, 1997). Leaving aside the disputed accounts of the occasional primate combining two words when using sign language, apes undeniably have trouble integrating two juxtaposed conceptualizations ( Roberts, 1998 ).
