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

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 ...

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

We are the worst primates when it comes to wound healing, according to a new study. Our wounds heal nearly three times slower than those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and other ...

Apes and early human ancestors likely evolved free-moving shoulders and flexible elbows as a way to slow their descent from trees.

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 ...

Monkeys using stones to crack open nuts generate many stone flakes accidentally that look exactly like the ones archaeologists have long thought early humans made intentionally as tools.

Researchers from New York University have finally learned how early humans took a major step away from primates in the evolutionary process by no longer growing tails 25 million years ago.

These are features we see in hybrids of various mammals, including primates," Harvati and Ackermann explain. Their study showed that signals of hybridization were evident in braincases and jaws ...