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The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.
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The great , brainy apes , including man, arrived in the last 20 million years.
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The orang is by far the most arboreal of the great apes .
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Science places Proconsul in the family Pongidae, to which belong the three species of today's great apes .
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Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line.
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the great apes
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Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line.
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The orang is by far the most arboreal of the great apes.
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Female exogamy means that apes are largely devoid of mechanisms for females to build coalitions of relatives.
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Monkeys and apes are the only mammals with good color vision.
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Or at least, language of the beyond the apes variety?
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Something about apes or monkeys too.
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The apes provide us with much information concerning possible roots of sociable behaviour in man.
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The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
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Though his eyes were weakening by the moment, his gaze was still more acute than that of the blossoming ape .
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Yet almost nothing is known about the brain organization underlying language in such apes.
II. verb
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California wine makers are trying to do new things with sauvignon blanc instead of just aping French styles.
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His music attempts to ape classical styles, but the results are not very original.
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As an alternative to aping Hollywood, it could be seen as a useful model for the development of indigenous cinema.
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Burton had no middle-class expectations, and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to.
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But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver.
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Recently the Bangalorean software industry has been aping what happened in Manhattanmoving some offices into the center of the city.
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She pushed her doll closer, so that Mrs Fanning aped a surprised, cross-eyed look.
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Tearback tabs represent a lovely example of industrial design aping the very best of human innovation.
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That probably accounts for some of the scepticism after the decision to ape stock market precedent and end business barriers between underwriters.