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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Gibbons belong to the higher primates , the Anthropoidea, the monkeys and apes.
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Kohak points out that anthropologists use the evidence of worship as a key way to distinguish between humans and higher primates .
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What is true of the chimpanzee and the higher primates in general is even more true of man.
other
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Culture in man depends on the development of psychological traits not found in other primates .
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And the evidence from other primates is equally ambiguous.
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What now of the claims that other primates can communicate with systems in all important respects as complicated as ours?
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Prudently taking cognisance of onlookers also turns out to be important in the social behaviour of other primates .
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As with other primates , male chimpanzees have a clear hierarchy that controls access to females.
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Nevertheless, the plants are dispersed by a range of other agents including primates and even water.
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This feature usefully serves other primates , which consume considerable amounts of ripe fruit: rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Demonstrations have been held at the primate centre run by the University of California-Davis.
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Here we show that the P3A exon is present only in primates and man and it is conserved through primate evolution.
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However, the hierarchies of hens and of various primates share many features in common.
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In primates it seems to be based on social rank.
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In Sarawak, travelers will visit Bako National Park, known for its birds, primates and pitcher plants.
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Other primates laugh by panting rapidly.
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Presumably, these relatively open habitats favored larger groups as they did for chimps and baboons, the two other open-country primates.
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Providing one sticks to primates there is much scope for successful extrapolation.