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 ...

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North ...

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.

Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as previously thought. It's long been assumed that primates' colorful skin and fur is linked to their ...

For decades, the story of primate origins seemed straightforward. Early primates were thought to have emerged in warm, humid ...

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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 ...

7 Latin American primate species, which inhabit Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and one that extends from Mexico to Colombia, are among the most endangered in the world, according to an international ...