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Apes recognise old friends and family after decades apart, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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Apes recognise photos of friends and family they have not seen for more than 25 years, researchers have found. Some even respond enthusiastically to pictures of long-lost comrades, demonstrating the longest-lasting social memory ever documented outside humans. Professor Christopher Krupenye, from Johns Hopkins University, said it suggested not just familiarity, but that the primates keep…
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Human shoulders and elbows evolved as brakes for apes climbing trees, new study says | World News
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Humans’ rotating shoulders and extending elbows – which allow us to reach a high shelf or throw a ball – may have evolved as a natural braking system for our primate ancestors, new research suggests. Early humans needed the movements to slow their descent out of trees so they could climb down without dying, researchers…