For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a ...

Researchers from 24 countries have analyzed the genomes of 809 individuals from 233 primate species, generating the most complete catalog of genomic information about our closest relatives to date.

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

Fossil evidence from the Tornillo Basin in West Texas and the Uinta Basin in Utah reveals two new species of omomyids—a family of small-bodied early primates from the Eocene epoch. The findings also ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

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Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...