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 ...

In romantic movies, kissing often symbolizes love, yet this simple act of pressing lips together has peculiar origins.

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.

The study’s authors say their research could pave the way to a deeper understanding into one of science’s murkiest questions: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although similar in many ways, ring-tailed and sifaka lemurs show differences in life pacing and lifespan, making useful ...

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

The growing realization that a variety of primates accidentally make stone flakes, he says, shows that when and if need to cut something arose, early human ancestors likely would have had plenty ...

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 ...