Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. Subscribe to ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cover -- Cortical Evolution in Primates -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables ...

New historical and evolutionary research places kissing in earlier manuscripts and models its possible roots in ancient ape ancestors.

Primate evolution claim challenged An analysis of 37 million year old primate fossils is fueling a debate over the existence of an evolutionary link between lemur-like and monkey-like primates -- a ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

The diet of early anthropoids—the ancestors of apes and monkeys—has long been debated. Did these early primates display behaviors and diets similar to modern species, or did they have much humbler ...

Gene Regulation in Primates Evolves under Tissue-Specific Selection Pressures: Regulatory changes have long been hypothesized to play an important role in primate evolution. To identify adaptive ...

You might find the lemur mongoose in Madagascar and the raccoon in the deciduous forests of North America, but they have one important thing in common: both species spend a lot of time climbing trees.

Killing a rival and squabbling over food turn out to be statistically distant behaviors across the primate family tree. A ...

Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of ...