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2,693 results for: Monkeys

  1. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2007

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the past year.

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  2. Anthropology

    Capuchins resist inbreeding chances

    Wild capuchin monkeys manage to avoid inbreeding, despite rampant opportunities for high-status fathers to mate with their grown daughters.

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  3. Trouble in Paradise

    Schizophrenia strikes inhabitants of the Micronesian nation of Palau, especially the men, at an unusually high rate, raising questions about culture's role in a disease usually regarded as purely biological.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Vice Vaccines

    Vaccines currently in development could give people a novel way to kick their addictions and lose weight.

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  5. Monkeys keep track of small numbers

    Monkeys show signs of knowing when the number of faces that they see matches the number of voices that they hear, leading a research team to conclude that these primates possess basic counting skills.

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  6. Anthropology

    Evolution’s DNA Difference: Noncoding gene tied to origin of human brain

    Investigators have discovered a gene that shows signs of having evolved rapidly in people and of having made a substantial contribution to the emergence of a uniquely human brain.

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  7. Humans

    From the October 31, 1936, issue

    Ancient Egyptian tombstones, political party preferences, and a new record for starvation.

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  8. Anthropology

    Chimps indifferent to others’ welfare

    New laboratory experiments suggest that chimpanzees, unlike people, don't care about the welfare of unrelated members of their social groups.

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  9. Humans

    Letters from the September 24, 2005, issue of Science News

    Monkey see, monkey smell That monkeys get “weirded out” by seeing themselves in mirrors doesn’t seem unexpected (“Reflections of Primate Minds: Mirror images strike monkeys as special,” SN: 7/23/05, p. 53). Were a familiar or an unfamiliar same-sex capuchin seen, the test subject would be bombarded not just by visual images but also by smells […]

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  10. Reflections of Primate Minds: Mirror images strike monkeys as special

    Capuchin monkeys don't react to their own mirror images as they do to strangers, perhaps reflecting an intermediate stage of being able to distinguish oneself from others.

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  11. Monkey See, Monkey Think: Grape thefts instigate debate on primate’s mind

    Rhesus monkeys treat a competitor's averted eyes as a license to steal his or her food.

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  12. Mother Knows Worst: Abusive parenting spans generations in monkeys

    Many female rhesus monkeys who were abused as infants by their mothers do the same to their own infants, raising the prospect of using these animals as a model for human child abuse.

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