ape
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Erik Seiffert, a paleontologist at the University of Southern California and a co-author of the study, said the findings changed his view of early ape evolution.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Touching, embracing and kissing before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, according to scientists studying the behaviour of our closest ape relatives.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The results may support a theory known as the estrogenized ape hypothesis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Through strengthened domestic protection, climate-responsive planning, and global financial and technical assistance, we can still prevent the first modern extinction of a great ape species."
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
"You've been in contact for twenty-four hours and the media is going ape shit. They want an image for the story. It'll be on every news site in the world."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Its presence suggests that apes were already diversifying in this area before land connections opened the way for them to spread into Europe and Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The species also appears to occupy a significant position in the evolutionary history of apes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
More tolerant groups showed higher levels of reassuring touch, including what researchers described as "reassurance trains", in which multiple apes embraced one another in succession.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Eventually the rebels would realize that there were apes back here, but it would be best to delay the realization.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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In the 1960s, a primitive chatbot that mindlessly aped a therapist had people pouring their hearts out to it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
His misguided approach - often aped on the Accidentally Partridge social media account, which shares cringeworthy clips of public figures - is "provocative" but, Coogan hopes, "never mean-spirited."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Eggers’ “Nosferatu” succeeds because the director’s alterations to Henrik Galeen’s original 1922 screenplay, aped from Stoker’s novel with a few tweaks, are minimal.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
It’s not the first time Meta has aped a competitor’s innovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
They aped teacher’s snarling manner when they spoke to each other.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Though Hale’s crude aping of Harold Lloyd is disappointing, the rest of the cast acquit themselves admirably—no one more so than La Plante as the sympathetic heroine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The group had started out as one of countless young English acts aping American R&B in the mid-’60s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
The plan is to craft something “safe and fun” that will “bring joy” to its users, especially “women and gay people,” at a time when other social media executives are aping norms of reactionary ultramasculinity.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2025
And so European footwear pivoted into the wide, box-toed shoes - and obviously, the public responded by aping the regal style with a flourish.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
I realized that she was aping my grandmother.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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