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, ...

A fossil primate skeleton, apparently the oldest ever found, has been unearthed in China, and this 'cousin' of humanity shows that some of our earliest ancestors were tiny, hyperactive bug-eaters, ...

A new dataset of genetic information collected from 233 primate species, the largest and most complete of its kind, promises to yield insights into primates’ evolutionary biology and how genetics ...

Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics. Their past adaptations reveal insights for conservation today. Many people picture our earliest primate ancestors moving through dense ...

Biological evolution has woven an intricate tapestry of life through time, a pattern we are just beginning to fully ...

Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of ...

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The analysis of the 47 million year old Darwinius fossils gave momentum to this alternative view. Seiffert and his colleagues shoot down the notion that adapiforms -- including both Afradapis and ...