Hominidae

Although humans might not be perfect from the instant they were created, they can be improved by their human potential to maximize their human abilities. Since God and Maheo had very different ideas of how they created each of their worlds, this led to many different things that consequently had happened in each of their creation stories. God thought that humans could be tested to see if they had reached their highest peak of human potential by giving them different temptations. Maheo had the…

Instructor Marina Dzougoutov GSR 220.01: Deaf Cinema 9 December 2014 2001 MVP- Most Valuable Primate, Warner Brothers Production Released: October 20, 2001. Director: Robert Vince. Actors: Jack the monkey (Bernie, Louie, Mac) Lomax Study (Dr.Kendall) Russell Ferrier (Darren) Kevin Zegers (Steven Westover) Jamie Rene Smith (Tara Westover) Ingrid Tesch (Susie Westover) Philip Granger (Mark Westover) Rick Ducommun (Coach Marolowe) Deaf Characters: Jack(monkey) Tara(sister of the main…

The howler monkey is thought to be the loudest species in the world, yet the most inactive monkey! The howler lives in South America, in addition to different countries around the world. The monkey’s relative size to a man is 6 feet! Also, their species spend most of their lives sleeping. The howler monkey eats different things provided by nature but, they feed off of nature, yet nature feeds on them. The monkey lives in a dense rainforest located in South America, and they have a tail that…

It’s a known fact that apes have been around for over 4 billion years. Much longer than humans have been around. They’ve been around for about 200,000 years. There is proven theories that we evolved from apes. Considering that we share similarities along with the obvious differences. For example behavioral ways would be the similarities with humans and primates. Living different life styles would fall more towards the ape section of this essay because they have been living in wild life since…

The Homo Sapien, the “thinking apes,” ancestors of mankind have been around for about six million years (Howell). Since then we have undergone many advances, many revolutions, starting with the very thing that gave humans an advantage over other beings, their minds. Mankind was able to create tools that allowed them to master everything that they did, they harvested energy/ fire, engendered mathematics, democracy, the wheel, the printing press, electricity, vaccinations, etcetera. Humanity was…

Throwing a Bone: 2001 There are some powerful scenes that precede the bone throw in Kubrik’s masterpiece, 2001. A man-ape learns to use a bone casually. The man-ape uses other bones to clobber things—this is intercut with images of huge animals falling--and suggests the man ape realizes a bone can be a hunting tool. During an intertribal intimidation fest, a bone is used to intimidate and then to kill a man-ape from an enemy tribe. The users of bone win the battle. As the winning tribe revel…

Primate parenting includes several distinct features that separate them from other mammals. One distinct feature is the length in time that primates care for their young. It is a significantly longer time period than most other mammals, giving the mother and offspring a very close bond. Another distinctive feature is the fact that without being raised by its own mother (and is instead raised by a surrogate), a primate offspring will enter adulthood with very little knowledge of how to properly…

Wake up, nothing is the same. Look around, nothing is the same. Fall back asleep, nothing is the same. Everything is strange and unfamiliar: the environment, the people, and the surroundings. I can’t communicate with my family, I can’t socialize with my friends, and I can’t even exhibit my natural behaviors and be myself. I am a chimpanzee in a research center. For decades, medical research on chimpanzees has been justified through the similar justification for slavery- a “necessary evil” used…

The great Ardipithecus radius (Ardi) was alive on earth around 4.4 million years go. Ardi lived in Eastern Africa where they lived in Eastern Africa and lived in the forest. Also Ardi were known as strict “omnivores”. Lastly, the brain of Ardi’s was about 300 to 1500 cubic centimeters and walked up right like humans (bipedal). Autralopithecus Afarensis (Lucy) was alive on earth around 3.2 million years ago. Lucy lived in Africa where they lived in wet and dry environment typically wooden areas…

The Lagothrix is within the Neotropical primate family, Atelidae. Atelids are the largest Neotropical primates yet only two studies have tried to resolve the relationships among taxa within the genus Lagothrix (Ruiz-Garcia Pinedo-Castro, 2010). Within the genus are 2 allopatric species, one widespread in the western Amazon (L. lagotricha) and the other confined to montane forests on the eastern slope of the Central Cordillera of the Andes in northern Peru, bordering the Amazonian forest (L.…