Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...
At least five movies about primates or with a primate in the title made it to theaters in 2024, and quite honestly most of ...
Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of ...
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 ...
Primates are fantastically diverse ... the need for a complete tree of life will only be met if we can find a way to bring ...
However, 60 million years ago, having twins was the norm among primates, which changed everything anthropologists understood ...
While humans and chimpanzees share many genes, alterations in gene activity may account for distinctive features of the human ...
The primates are solitary creatures, and adults usually live alone. They eat forest foods, leaves and fruits. As they often have to roam large spaces to find food, it’s better for them if they ...
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 ...