A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder.

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Sixty million years ago most primates had twins automatically but our mammalian ancestors ceased birthing them to give us an evolutionary advantage, according to the findings of a new study.

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

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

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Ben Hirsch receives funding from US National Science Foundation. Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains ...