Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin -- A molecular classification for the living orders of placental mammals and the phylogenetic placement of primates / MS Springer, WJ ...

Primate locomotion and evolution encompass the diverse adaptations that have enabled primates to negotiate complex arboreal environments. Throughout their evolutionary history, primates have acquired ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder. Squirrels and many other mammals, by contrast, tend to go headfirst. That ...

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 whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social communication tools in the animal kingdom.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Without it, teeth this small can slip past standard collecting. “This discovery helps fill a gap in understanding the geography and evolution of our earliest primate relatives after dinosaur ...