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 ...

Major primate genome sequencing studies reveal new insight into evolution, biodiversity and key applications for human health Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

The findings, based on coupled genomic and long-term field data, highlight the crucial role of other living primates as models for understanding human evolution, particularly for phenomena that ...

A 2023 study observed that lip-to-lip kissing existed in ancient Mesopotamia circa 2500 BCE, yet its origins remain largely theoretical, based on the inherent difficulty in assessing many ancient ...

Researchers from 24 countries compared the genomes of 809 individual primates from 233 species and identified 4.3 million common missense mutations. The resulting studies uncovered DNA sequence ...

Comprehensive global studies on primate genomes have unveiled significant insights into their evolution, human disease, and biodiversity conservation, utilizing the largest-ever catalog of genomic ...

Some background — Most scientists recognize that the highly dextrous human hand seems to differ in shape and form from the hands primates use to swing from trees.

Some background — In the late 1960s ... The evolution of self-control is not so clear in an invertebrate like the cuttlefish, ... Unlike non-human primates, ...

Human’s ability to talk may depend, in part, on our having lost a part of the larynx that dozens of other primate species have, new research suggests. 10'000 Hours/DigitalVision/getty images ...