So you're not really sure what's going on with the pig.

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

Why would that be? Well, that probably has to do with reciprocity.

No, it only affects primates.

What are you, the Primate Garbage Police?

Three reasons. First, curiosity.

The fourth foundation is authority respect.

So let me give you a few examples here.

It might be after all, most other mammals live half as long as the chimpanzee, so we're sort of three and a half or four times, have four times the longevity of most mammals.

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

Biology we have co adapted through biology to like bright colors.

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,

Grooming in primates increases group cohesion.

Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto human history.

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

So, they completely miss the metaphorical meaning.

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.

As for my younger daughters, if any of them...

It's really important for our music and our language.

It's the autobiographical self which some species have, I think.

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Gray.

I got to a point where I discovered something called the expensive tissue hypothesis.

We have got, under our skin, a layer of fat, all over nothing in the least like that in any other primate.

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.

It's about opening up.

Physiologically, there also are differences on two key hormones testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone.

And I can tell you, any monkey will do anything for you if you get a little drop of Brazilian orange juice.

Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one eighty feet in

This is CB1 fulfilling its dream in Japan under the control of the brain activity of a primate.

The good news about Holly though is that she doesn't actually have the same kinds of technologies we do.

Man is the lord of all creation.

5.93 million years ago was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.

My name is Ralph Schuyler. Bill March.

To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic?

He's the clan leader. She's their spiritual leader.

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.

When we're trying to figure out what's good for pizza, isn't it all about what's our pleasure?

And they did this incredible ritual combat dance.

There are two kinds of fox spirits good fox and bad fox.

Nuclear weapons will bring about nothing but the ruin of mankind.

In times when it seems least appropriate to play, it might be the times when it is most urgent.

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You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

Well, we all do, and the reason for that is because we have a belief engine in our brains.