The oldest primate bones we have ever found belong to an animal called Plesiadapis, which was about the size of a lemur and lived around 55 million years ago.. Over time, early primates split into ...

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the ...

Human skin regrew 2.5 times more slowly. Humans regrew their skin at around 0.25mm per day, while the other primates and mammals exceeded this. Skin regrowth proceeded at approximately 0.62mm per day.

For early humans, these versatile appendages would have been essential for gathering food and deploying tools for hunting and defense. Luke Fannin, Dartmouth Get the Popular Science daily ...

Scientists have debunked the alpha male myth through a study of 121 primate species, revealing that dominance is rarely tied ...

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 ...

This term refers to early human ancestors who are associated with the Oldowan stone tool industry. ... particularly among primates. The use of tools is shared by humans and our closest relatives, ...

A new review was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science), on October 29, 2024, Volume 16, Issue 20, titled, "Brain aging and Alzheimer ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers ...