Primates Quotes

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As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be… — Francis Collins
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. — Keith Henson
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. — Christopher Hitchens
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. — Christopher Hitchens
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? — Steven Pinker
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is… — Peter Singer
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. — Frans de Waal
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because… — Frans de Waal
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff… — Frans de Waal
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we… — Muriel Barbery
Iâ€™ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I donâ€™t know. I think those two guys you were with would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time. — Eoin Colfer
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be… — Alison Jolly
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested… — Arne Glimcher
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely… — George Gaylord Simpson
We have no reason to think that human cloning will not work - it works in primates - but it may take many, many attempts. — Wolf Reik

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