Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates protects them from the sun, rain, and insect bites of their native habitats in the forests and cloud forests of Peru, Columbia, Ecuador ...

For example, there are small and large leaping primates as well as small and large brachiators. The same can be said concerning quadrupedalists, whether arboreal or terrestrial. These observations ...

Primates are fantastically diverse ... the need for a complete tree of life will only be met if we can find a way to bring together these efforts. While large, fully timed trees with molecular ...

Sixty million years ago most primates had twins automatically but our mammalian ancestors ceased birthing them to give us an ...

Accordingly, small primates have proportionately larger neurocrania and shorter faces than large primates (Gould, 1975; Martin, 1990). Size-related shape changes have a cascade effect, as spatial ...

Primates have big brains, but so do elephants and whales. Elephants and whales, however, have much larger bodies that their ...

While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...

So, when did this evolutionary change in primate litter size occur? Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child – a rather large child with an even larger head. Human brain and body size is ...

Primates are fantastically diverse ... only be met if we can find a way to bring together these efforts. While large, fully timed trees with molecular sequence data for all species are rare ...