Primates Compare And Contrast

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Many Primatologist has been trying to find the connection among humans, ape, and monkeys. That this two primates has almost the same genetics to humans indicating them as the closest relatives of anthropoids, but while some disagree with this point saying that the apes and monkeys are nothing compared to humans because of differences in physical biology and advanced intelligence. In my opinion that humans, apes and monkeys share genetic bonds that makes them share certain analogy and distinction in Social interactions, Emotional expressions, and Intelligence.
Like humans apes and monkeys also socially interacts with other primates they have social relationships, such as family bonds and mating. In similar to humans in a family there is father,
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The brain of the apes and monkeys only has a limit on how much in can function but it still can operate the basic function needed like how human brain works. In recent a study by Franz-Xaver Neubert of the University of Oxford, states that "Brains of humans apes and monkeys are remarkably similar in how they are organized and may find valuable insight into the evolutionary that established both the similarities and differences of three primates." (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107 (2010), pp. 13240–13245)States that the information they have found that the brain of the three primates are similarly organized the same way and this information may connect a link on understanding the brain. Neubert and his colleagues have been researching on a certain part of the brain called the ventrolateral frontal cortex, which is important for cognitive processes including language, cognitive flexibility, and decision-making. In addition Neubert and his team finds a surprising number of similarities in ventrolateral frontal cortex connectivity and the brain region's architecture. that may indicate similarities of the two species, " Scientist and psychologist have been arguing that in order for humans to have developed these abilities is that they had to evolve a completely new neural apparatus, but others believe that these specialized brain systems might have existed in other primates." (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107 (2010), pp. 13240–13245) Scientist and psychologist that in order for humans to have had this abilities is that their ancestor could have mutated some parts of their brain to gain a new neural apparatus while other believe that the neural apparatus was already part

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