And so, my fellow primates,

No, it only affects primates.

Grooming in primates increases group cohesion.

It has also some beautiful primates.

Essentially, we are pattern seeking primates.

Primates are extremely curious and humans most of all.

The primates include not only the apes, but also man.

There are two orders of magnitude more spiders than primates.

Primates, on the other hand, we use our mouths more.

Cetaceans and primates have also an autobiographical self to a certain degree.

And in the case of the primates, we have almost the same genes.

Ladies and gentlemen, primates of all ages, the wild proudly presents the King

Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit eating primates giving TED Talks.

And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to primates.

All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.

So, this area is about eight times the size in higher especially in humans as in lower primates.

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest.

But authority in humans is not so closely based on power and brutality, as it is in other primates.

And actually it turns out a lot of primates don't have that many different base pairs than human beings.

These guys are New World primates, which means they broke off from the human branch about 35 million years ago.

To put that number into perspective, here's a graph comparing the 40,000 species of spiders to the 400 species of primates.

If we look across many, many different species of animals, not just us primates, but also including other mammals, birds, even marsupials

That's especially good that mammals and primates like fruits and bright plants, because you eat the fruit and you thereby spread the seed.

A 'roo hops in Oz a horse runs in Asia and a wolf evolves stilt legs in Brazil. Primates emerge from jungles, as tarsiers first,

You know, in primates, there is this phenomenon called sexual dimorphism, which simply means males are larger than females and males have larger teeth than the females.

And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and suffering.

We are human, and we have the capacity to love, we have the capacity to wonder, and we have a sort of boundless curiosity, a restless inquisitiveness that so suits us as primates, I think.

I started doing some research then, and this was the 25 year journey, and started finding out that actually human beings as primates have far smaller stomachs than should be the size for our body weight and far larger brains.

I think morality is much more than what I've been talking about, but it would be impossible without these ingredients that we find in other primates, which are empathy and consolation, pro social tendencies and reciprocity and a sense of fairness.