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Robert D. Martin | Primate Origins, Brain Evolution, and Evolutionary Medicine
YouTube video by Our Primate Past Robert D. Martin | Primate Origins, Brain Evolution, and Evolutionary Medicine
09.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical jungles Early primates evolved in cold North American climates 66 million years ago, enduring freezing winters before migrating to tropics.
22.08.2025 22:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aye-ayes: The strange nocturnal lemurs with long, creepy fingers Aye-ayes are remarkable thanks to their extra-long, bony middle fingers, which they use to locate grubs and pick their noses.
03.08.2025 03:08 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Born Free Foundation urges zoo boycott over great ape captivity The charity calls on UK zoos, including Chester and Blackpool, to phase out the keeping of primates.
01.08.2025 21:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Orangutans make up for lost sleep with daytime naps, study finds When it comes to sleeping, few animals are as fastidious as orangutans. Each evening, as twilight approaches, the tree-dwelling great apes meticulously weave a cup-shaped nest out of branches, twigs a...
24.07.2025 23:12 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Super exciting work on rhythm in chimpanzee drumming!! with very interesting implications for the origins of music!

21.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Chimpanzees Use Rhythmic Drumming To Communicate Across Forests Chimpanzees drum rhythmically, suggesting the roots of human musicality may predate our species. New research by cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists has found that chimpanzees drum rhythm...
04.06.2025 03:52 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
Colugo: The 'flying lemur' that doesn't fly and isn't a lemur This big-eyed rainforest mammal looks like a cross between a bat and a squirrel. It glides between treetops using a furry membrane that connects its limbs.
20.07.2025 04:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whose turn is it? The question is at the heart of language and chimpanzees ask it too Chimpanzees’ turn-taking shows skills that may have supported the evolution of human conversation.
16.07.2025 01:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Curious chimps and nosy kids: new study shows it’s only natural to love drama In a new study comparing social curiosity in children and chimpanzees, researchers found that both species are drawn to social interactions.
09.07.2025 23:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bernard Wood | Hominin Taxonomy, Paranthropus Evolution, and Interpreting the Fossil Record
YouTube video by Our Primate Past Bernard Wood | Hominin Taxonomy, Paranthropus Evolution, and Interpreting the Fossil Record

Professor Bernard Wood discusses Homo and Paranthropus evolution, the Sahelanthropus femur, the taxonomy of H. naledi and H. floresiensis, and the importance of fossil access and data sharing in human origins research:

05.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Anna Nekaris | Loris Venom, Lorisiform Evolution and Conservation
YouTube video by Our Primate Past Anna Nekaris | Loris Venom, Lorisiform Evolution and Conservation
28.06.2025 12:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter
27.06.2025 07:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ethnoprimatology: research examines the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples about primates in their territories The primate species identified in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land have symbolic meanings that are deeply associated with the cultural, ecological and mythological elements of the Paiter-Suruí peo...
26.06.2025 08:06 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Patricia Wright | Lemur Discoveries, Madagascar Fossils, and Founding Centre ValBio
YouTube video by Our Primate Past Patricia Wright | Lemur Discoveries, Madagascar Fossils, and Founding Centre ValBio

Patricia Wright discusses discovering new lemur species and the latest subfossil finds from Madagascar, including clues to ancient ecosystems and early human presence:

24.06.2025 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Will tropical dry forests survive the next 50 years? In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the rainy season watching the tropical dry forest from inside a shack. At nigh...
24.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Primate Past Our Primate Past is a video interview series featuring leading experts in primatology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. Through accessible, time-stamped interviews, world-ren...

🎥 Just launched: Our Primate Past — a new YouTube channel featuring interviews with leading experts in primatology and biological anthropology. The first 3 interviews are uploaded, with new videos to be added every few days. Subscribe to stay updated!

22.06.2025 02:35 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Stumpy rings in 39th birthday with world record as the longest-living lemur Ring-tailed lemur Stumpy celebrates turning 39 with birthday cake and a new Guinness World Records title!
19.06.2025 02:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Female baboons with strong relationship to fathers found to live longer Study suggests role of male parents may be under-appreciated in some primate species
18.06.2025 06:13 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Early apes lived in a constantly changing world of fire and ash Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.
17.06.2025 05:18 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New research reveals the first apes evolved in tropical forests Research shows the earliest apes – ancestors of modern great apes and humans – evolved in tropical forests in the shadow of a violent volcano.
13.06.2025 22:54 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Why can’t we stop feeding monkeys? Experts explain the reasons behind a dangerous habit Recent research explores what drives this human behaviour.
13.06.2025 09:14 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a...
10.06.2025 06:08 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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When monkey researchers spent 36 days watching baboons, they discovered something very 'human' about the way they walk | Discover Wildlife New research uncovers the surprising truth behind the mysterious march of these wild primates – and it’s got nothing to do with predators or food.

When monkey researchers spent 36 days watching baboons, they discovered something very 'human' about the way they walk:

06.06.2025 23:22 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chimpanzees Use Rhythmic Drumming To Communicate Across Forests Chimpanzees drum rhythmically, suggesting the roots of human musicality may predate our species. New research by cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists has found that chimpanzees drum rhythm...
04.06.2025 03:52 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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Hibernating Lemurs Can Turn Back the Clock on Cellular Aging | Duke Today
03.06.2025 07:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inertia and Rapid Divergence in the Evolution of Yawning: A Comparison Between Two Closely Related but Socially Different Monkeys Geladas produce yawn vocalizations, yawn more, and in a larger variety of contexts than hamadryas. Geladas are more susceptible to others' yawns that hamadryas. Yawn contagion in hamadryas is mostly ...
02.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dinosaur extinction to thank for our early primate ancestors’ success The extinction of the largest dinosaurs might have aided the evolution of the small, fruit-eating ancestors of primates, according to new research.
01.06.2025 02:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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120 Years of “Lemurology”: A Qualitative Review of What We Have Learned This review synthesizes about 120 years of scientific articles, starting in 1900, to summarize current advances in scientific studies about lemurs (Lemurology)”. It also addresses the conservation ch...
30.05.2025 07:08 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Silvery lining for Java’s endangered gibbon as Rahayu Oktaviani wins Whitley prize YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Rahayu Oktaviani revered the work of Canadian primatologist Biruté Galdikas while a student in the mid-2000s, aspiring to join her hero in protecting the Bornean orangutan, whi...
27.05.2025 06:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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