Morality is not unique to humans. Biologist FRANS DE WAAL has found ethical behavior like empathy, altruism, and fairness in chimpanzees, bonobos and capuchin monkeys. De Waal is the director of the ...

A cache of exquisitely preserved bones, found in a coal mine in the state of Gujarat, India, appear to be the most primitive primate bones yet discovered, according to a new analysis. Their assessment ...

The complex unfolding of human evolution over the past 7 million years is but one small story in the larger volume of primate evolutionary history. Humans, and our hominin ancestors, belong to a ...

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, ...

Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin -- A molecular classification for the living orders of placental mammals and the phylogenetic placement of primates / MS Springer, WJ ...

Archicebus achilles gen. et sp. nov. Etymology. Generic name is derived from arche, Greek for beginning, and cebus, new Latin from Greek, for long-tailed monkey. Specific epithet is from Achilles, in ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

Comprehensive global studies on primate genomes have unveiled significant insights into their evolution, human disease, and biodiversity conservation, utilizing the largest-ever catalog of genomic ...

Analyses of primate visual pigments show that our color vision evolved in an unusual way and that the brain is more adaptable than generally thought To our eyes, the world is arrayed in a seemingly ...

Evolution has favoured the modification and expansion of primate vision. Compared with other mammals, primates have, for example, greater depth perception from having forward-facing eyes with ...

Learn about the different ways mammals descended from trees and what this can tell us about early primate evolution.

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 ...