But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species. Built by ...

What is macroevolution? Why is it important? How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution? Understanding macroevolution is important because it explains ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

Changes in global and regional climates apparently had profound effects on the evolutionary history of primates ... are to its sister groups Scandentia (tree shrews), Dermoptera (colugos ...

Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are now agreed ... shrinking the habitat where tree-dwelling primates lived and foraged. Another factor possibly upsetting the East African environment ...

According to Kaya, more precise age determinations of mammalian fossils provide new insights into primate evolution. “The research reinforces our understanding of how ecosystems and species ...

Recent research has suggested that twins were actually quite common back during primate evolution ... of species across the mammalian family tree and then used mathematical algorithms to identify ...