My closest relatives have gone about gaining their citizenship in a legal, proper and ethical manner.
Gorillas are our closest relatives, after chimpanzees and bonobos, having diverged from our common ancestors 8 million years ago.
He thinks their conditions are treatable and that, as our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, they deserve proper psychiatric care.
Chimpanzees and bonobos - our closest relatives of the group tended, like the humans, to have longer series of laughs, each made up of shorter calls.
' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.
The court ruled that he stay inside his flat, limited his communications to his closest relatives and his lawyers, and banned him from using the internet, our correspondent reports.
Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos do not generally form fists, and the researchers think they are unable to: when a chimp curls up its fingers it forms a doughnut shape.
These studies have been made possible by the growth in catalogues and maps of genetic variation among human populations, as well as differences with our closest relatives, such as Neanderthal and chimpanzee.
The worm's closest relatives, which also lack guts and mouths, live in deep-sea hydrothermal vents and rely on a different set of bacteria to allow them to survive in these hot and acidic conditions.
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Short of developing language (and there are a few researchers who believe that chimps can also manage that), it is hard to see what more man's closest relatives could possibly be required to do to be admitted to the culture club.
According to Wolfe and his team, malaria jumped to humans from our closest living relatives: chimpanzees.
Hunters, disease and habitat loss are decimating our closest living relatives--chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.
And so it should be no surprise that they've focused much of their efforts on our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees.
Some scientists are also calling for an international effort to decode the DNA of man's closest living relatives: the great apes.
As an antidote to this picture, he offers plenty of evidence of apparently selfless sacrifice, unforced sympathy, co-operation and even a keen sense of fairness in our closest animal relatives, who evolved to reap the benefits of mutual aid.
Ned is repeatedly betrayed by his closest friends and relatives.
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