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 story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

The evolution of the primate brain does not appear to have relied first on the autonomous growth of the frontal lobe, often associated with advanced cognitive functions. A study published in Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

This photograph shows two species from the study by Toussaint et al. – a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) – climbing on vertical supports. Researchers have shed new light on ...

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammals to diversify ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twins are uncommon in human history. Tesla Monson Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back ...

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen resolve why male-female ...

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

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.