Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Compared to the lesser primates, such as monkeys and lemurs ... and other aspects. In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the four other hominids apart from one another.*— ...

When discussing the primate family tree, it is crucial to address the common confusion arising from the everyday use of terms such as "ape" and "monkey". Humans, for instance, are typically ...

As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special ... shoulder joints designed to help them swing through trees. You won’t know from just looking at them, but great ...

Here, we'll lead you back through key stages in your primate heritage ... generations of your line—a long way down your family tree. Back then your primogenitor was more like a monkey than ...

Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses 455 primates, every species for which genetic data are available.

Humans, and our hominin ancestors, belong to a family of ... or Antarctica). Primates scamper on the tops of branches, swing beneath them, and even leap acrobatically from tree to tree.

Adaptive radiations and stasis -- Phylogenetic trees across the order Primates Phylogenetic trees also allow for comparing and contrasting the tempo and mode of evolution among different groups of ...

Despite the fact that almost all primates today, including people ... size of as many species as possible across the mammalian family tree and then use mathematical algorithms to look for ...