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- Rudegar, on 07/13/2009, -0/+15no!
all primates have a common ancestor
non of the now living primate evolved from any other now living primate - Ninh, on 07/13/2009, -0/+10It would have been tremendously surprising if humans had developed a different system if the primate one already did the job.
- linkesslover, on 07/13/2009, -1/+8Not the plethora of people who still think the earth is 6000 years old.
- drshorty, on 07/13/2009, -0/+7These studies may not provide much, but then again if we don't fund studies simply because they seem obvious, we miss out on the potential to find a real breakthrough. Even it progress is slow, it's better to actually confirm certain standings, than assume you're right and miss out on potential breakthroughs.
- samoan27, on 07/13/2009, -1/+7So do orangutans think all chimpanzees look the same?
- humanerror, on 07/13/2009, -1/+6Next discovery: monkeys use their fingers to peel bananas just like humans do.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -2/+6With 98% common DNA who could have seen that coming?
- pazimzadeh, on 07/13/2009, -2/+5After all monkeys have better grammar than you only.
- Hetman, on 07/13/2009, -0/+3http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about-yerkes
Most of it is done through private donations/allumni contributions. - drshorty, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2I'm pretty certain that picture to the right looks messed up even upside down. Anybody else the same?
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Come on that symbol can't be typed.
- TexasShiv, on 07/13/2009, -3/+5And the evidence continues building...
- pazimzadeh, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2because "none of the now living primates evolved from any other living primate"
it means that a while ago there was some kind of creature - half modern monkey, half modern human - that we evolved from - biogears, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3Evidence that humans and monkeys use the same mechanism is equally supportive of a common ancestor and a common creator.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Because of the wise ways in which your politicians use the China loans, imo.
- rocknog, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Fair point. Science has a long history of seemingly obvious answers turning out to be completely wrong. For instance, it was common sense that the speed of a beam of light relative to an observer would depend on the observer's motion relative to that beam of light. Einstein flipped science on its head when he demonstrated that no, this fairly simply and obvious assumption was completely wrong.
- OleMissAMS, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2I read this as "monkeys and humans use parallel mechanism to recognize feces"
- plhearn, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2WAIT YOU MEAN MONKEYS DO SOME THINGS THE SAME WAY HUMANS DO!? THATS CRAZY!
- Hetman, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
Yea. It is usually caused by brain damage but recently they have also discovered that it can be passed through genes. In a worst case scenario some people are unable to recognize there own face. Which is very bizarre. - Firstdaughter, on 07/13/2009, -2/+3I have to wonder how they see GWB: http://www.aquilaarts.com/bushmonkey.html
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1God was pretty lazy when he was creating species. Couldn't he have come up with some other mechanism that's not so primitive for the most awesome species of anything?
- tech9, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1i have to admit, that bottom right picture looks kindof scary..
- Jektal, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1The bottom left is messed up, but not nearly as much as the bottom right. At first I didn't even realized the bottom left's eyes were flipped.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+2Primate brains all use the same mechanism for spatial recognition? Holy crap, now I've heard everything! Next you'll tell me we all poop a similar substance out of similar orifices.
...why is part of me convinced that someone received a 100 million dollar Grant to come up with this conclusion? - CheeseburgerBro, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Why can't we all just get along?
- UselessTrivia, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Anybody remember the specifics of this quote? I think it was from a Jane Goodall book. It goes something along the lines of:
There are eight species of Great Apes. One of which is relatively hairless. - KahRahTay, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1@insanebrain
your logic is nonsense
http://www.nmsr.org/torte.JPG - BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1If citizens like you want to support it that should be fine with all of us. Government might play an effective role in some coordination. Look how much confusion resulted from our chaitable efforts with the 911 crimes and the Katrina disaster. We the public had trouble sorting out all the insurance, private donations, foundation donations, law suits and so on that a government charity bureau might have helped with.
- RutgerB, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1The bottom right image looks like Michael Jackson
- andyb747, on 07/13/2009, -2/+2evidence of what? that animals and people share certain traits because we share the same creator?
- Taiyoryu, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1So this is probably why happy faces and smileys work. They're nothing more than a collection of simplified facial features. :-)
- damnshoes, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1๏̯͡๏﴿
- TranquilNight, on 07/13/2009, -0/+0You see what you want to see..
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1Not at my universtiy.But but hats off to Emory for sure.
- m4x30000, on 07/13/2009, -0/+0Monkeys are our super-class, we are just a derived class; so by definition, we inherit Monkeys attributes (and methods).
- TranquilNight, on 07/13/2009, -0/+0The distorted faces just look like a bunch of Black Metal faces.. Maybe the monkey wasn't surprised but simply responded by making a grim face?
- radish01001, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1So does this mean that people who are terrible at remembering faces have flawed configural perception?
- samoan27, on 07/13/2009, -2/+2You know our DNA is also 75% common with a banana. So don't run too far with the whole common DNA dictates common traits argument.
- PowderedToasty, on 07/13/2009, -0/+0I love when people put monkeys in human clothes.
- homercles337, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1Except that rhesus macaques are profoundly hyperopic. This means that they cant see ***** that is close to them (far-sighted). This also means that they dont give a ***** about faces. Meh, those fools at Yerkes, some of them are smart as hell, others just want monkeys to be humans.
- vats, on 07/13/2009, -6/+5After all humans are developed from monkeys only.
- Presbyterian, on 07/13/2009, -3/+2Humans and pigs also have very similiar dna.
- TranquilNight, on 07/13/2009, -2/+0๏͡_๏﴿
- Presbyterian, on 07/13/2009, -2/+0Is it good to discriminate among faces?.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -3/+1And *you* have even more similar dna to pigs, because your father had intercourse with them.
- borez, on 07/13/2009, -4/+2It always baffles me as to who is actually funding these ridiculously conclusion obvious studies?
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/13/2009, -6/+1Your politicians who know, much better than you do, how to spend your charity dollars. Immoral SOBs. I might support some of that myself but I resent the Federal politicians taxing and borrowing and then forcing us to support things against our wills.
- insanebrain, on 07/13/2009, -7/+1If that were true.. .then why are there still monkeys ?
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