Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

American Scientist

Mark Walport

We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health.

British Scientist

Michael Dickinson

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

Jane Goodall

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

English Scientist

Leonard Mlodinow

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.

American Physicist

Russell Banks

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

American Author

Robert Sapolsky

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

Clay Shirky

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

American Writer

Christopher Hitchens

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

H. Allen Smith

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

American Journalist

Remember that 'primate' does not only refer to non-human species; it also includes humans.

Includes Humans

Often used in discussions about evolution, showing relationships among different species.

Evolutionary Context

Primarily a scientific term but can appear in general language when discussing biology or anthropology.

Scientific Term

Refers to a religious leader with high authority, specific to some Christian churches.

Religious Leadership

Used in the context of ecclesiastical structure, concerns religious hierarchies.

Church Context

A title of respect and formal address for archbishops in some Christian denominations.

Formal Address

 what those individual animal characters are doing but we're doing that with knowledge and with weeks from us and years from the scientists of observing the animals and knowing what is possible without putting ourselves in danger the challenge was the environment which is very snowy very cold primates don't live there people don't live there if they did we'd have known

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 They've seen others that have got these monkeys as pets and they think, Oh, well, I can have a monkey as a pet. What impact does being kept as a pet have on the primate? They can suffer both physically and psychologically. These abnormal behaviours that they have are life long. And is it right that you can even own one in the first place?

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 So it's not at all unusual, for example, to hear people to say humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it --

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 filmed primates all over the world but there's nowhere that it's like this you know there's nowhere where they're living in a place where it's so cold so challenging the monkeys here are the most northern dwelling primates in the world

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 high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back. So we know that in primate hierarchies,

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 ecotourism and primate watching can provide a new income for local communities and an incentive to protect pilots and their home it's clearly demonstrating to local communities the importance of these intact forests and

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 oranges look after their children for longer than any other primate except ourselves it will take her nine years to teach her youngster everything she needs to know about this complex treetop world

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 But could the species with the most drastic environmental impact be a group of primates who emerged from Africa to cover most of the world? Are we an invasive species?

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 easy life all because they've learned to live alongside people it's this ability to adapt that has led them to become one of the most successful primates in the world

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 aside from humans in particularly your humble narrator what primate species spends the least amount of time climbing gelada monkeys have liked us adapted for

Primate

Includes Humans

Evolutionary Context

Scientific Term

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