pan-primate en · ADJ
Etymology
From pan- + primate.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Applying to all primates.
From a conceptual point of view, it would be desirable to have a pan-primate clock for measuring aging from conception to old age since it would satisfy the intuitive requirement that a molecular biomarker of aging should apply to all tissues from all primate species across the entire life course.
2023 July 26, Horvath S, Haghani A, Zoller JA, Lu AT, Ernst J, Pellegrini M, Jasinska AJ, Mattison JA, Salmon AB, Raj K, Horvath M, Paul KC, Ritz BR, Robeck TR, Spriggs M, Ehmke EE, Jenkins S, Li C, Nathanielsz PW., “Pan-primate studies of age and sex”, in Geroscience, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID:Given the clear homologies with display behaviors in other primates, and the ubiquity of the relevant adaptive problem across social animals, it is likely that proto-pride and proto-shame are pan-primate; indeed, the core features of these emotions and related appraisals and attitudes may be shared by all mammals, and possibly by most vertebrates.
2009 November 19, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Matthew Gervais, chapter 12, in Peter Kappeler and Joan Silk, editors, Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Springer, →ISBN, page 268:If these findings are confirmed in primates other than vervets, it is conceivable that the voice contributes to the solution of some pan-primate problems, offering clues to the vocal bias in human languages.
1999 May, John L Locke, Marc D Hauser, “Sex and Status Effects on Primate Volubility: Clues to the Origin of Vocal Languages?”, in Evolution and Human Behavior, volume 20, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 151-158: