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Primates

The highest order of mammals, including man, monkeys, and lemurs.

Origin: L. Primus, first


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Ebola Virus Question

... any treatment options for humans? So far I researched it and wasn't too successful. I found out that there is treatment for the Ebola virus in primates and such but couldn't find anything on humans. Maybe it's just that I wasn't looking in the right places, but are there any treatments for ...

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by BiologyIsFUN
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:48 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Ebola Virus Question
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Speciation among primates and hominids

... speciation manyfold. It has taken mere thousands of years to make a dog out of a wolf, for example. So the quickest way to make new species out of primates would probably be selective breeding (at the moment, genetic engineering is likely to speeden up that hugely in the future, if we so choose).

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by biohazard
Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:02 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
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Views: 373

Re: Speciation among primates and hominids

... Are they heavily tied to things like neurological complexity? Like I said, I've heard a number of times that major evolutionary changes in primates/hominids, when it comes to neurological, physiological, and biochemical structures takes on the scale of 1 million years or more, which is ...

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by Hozefit
Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:20 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
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Views: 373

Re: Re:

... and from what I can tell, much of the way we've gauged primate/hominid speciation is largely via fossil differences. I've also heard that, among primates/hominids, it takes on the scale of 1 million years or more for major neurological changes to occur- IE, the ones that seperate humans from ...

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by Jesse2504
Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:55 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
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Views: 373

Re:

... and from what I can tell, much of the way we've gauged primate/hominid speciation is largely via fossil differences. I've also heard that, among primates/hominids, it takes on the scale of 1 million years or more for major neurological changes to occur- IE, the ones that seperate humans from ...

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by Hozefit
Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:44 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Speciation among primates and hominids
Replies: 12
Views: 373
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