An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution
, 2013 Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, it remains an open question what adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion.
Huttner, Wieland B +4 more
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Making use of Capuchins’ behavioral propensities to obtain hair samples for DNA analyses [PDF]
, 2015 Genotyping wild and captive capuchins has become a priority and hair bulbs have high quality DNA. Here, we describe a method to non-invasively collect fresh-plucked strands of hair that exploits capuchins’ manual dexterity and propensity to grasp and ...
Aguiar, Rodrigo Mendes +5 more
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Exploring the use of overhypotheses by children and capuchin monkeys. [PDF]
, 2019 The use of abstract higher-level knowledge (overhypotheses) allows humans to learn quickly from sparse data, and make predictions in new situations. Previous research has suggested that humans may be the only species capable of abstract knowledge formation, but this remains controversial, and there is also mixed evidence for when this ability emerges ...
Felsche, Elisa +4 more
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Centrifugation of the white-fronted Capuchin monkey, Cebus albifrons /Humboldt/ [PDF]
Acceleration stress in monkeys, and breathing rate, electrocardiographic, and skin temperature measurements during ...
Knepton, J. C., Jr.
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Testes de identidade generalizada com objetos em macaco-prego (Cebus apella)
Psicologia: Teoria e PesquisaMacacos-prego demonstram identidade generalizada (IG) quando os testes são precedidos de treino de discriminações simples com mudanças sucessivas (DSMS) da função dos estímulos usados nos testes.
Carlos Barbosa Alves de Souza +4 more
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Aerospace medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 177 [PDF]
This bibliography lists 112 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in January ...
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Variation in ligand responses of the bitter taste receptors TAS2R1 and TAS2R4 among New World monkeys. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: New World monkeys (NWMs) are unique in that they exhibit remarkable interspecific variation in color vision and feeding behavior, making them an excellent model for studying sensory ecology.
Aureli, F +10 more
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Cognitive consequences of cooperative breeding in primates? [PDF]
, 2018 Several hypotheses propose that cooperative breeding leads to increased cognitive performance, in both nonhuman and human primates, but systematic evidence for such a relationship is missing.
Burkart, Judith, van Schaik, Carel
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Descriptive anatomy of trachea in the tufted capuchin monkey (Sapajus apella)
Biotemas, 2013 The descriptive study of wild animals’ anatomy enjoys an undeniable importance nowadays. Cerrado constitutes a complex biome which is home to a wide variety of species, among them the tufted capuchin monkey (Sapajus apella); four specimens were used ...
Daniela Cristina de Oliveira Silva +7 more
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Would humans without language be apes? [PDF]
, 2003 The bedrock of comparative psychology of cognition, especially where nonhuman primates are concerned, rests on Darwin's famous account according to which continuity would be the main trait leading from the animal to the human mind.
Vauclair, J
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