Prosimians rely heavily on scent for communicating with others within and outside their social groups. Because many species in this group are nocturnal, they lack the color vision of other primates.

Prosimians, generally regarded as the least related to humans, were deemed the most attractive. The overall winner of the primate beauty pageant was Madagascar's black-and-white ruffed lemur (pictured ...

Mankind is undergoing a major evolutionary transition comparable to the shifts from prosimians to monkeys, monkeys to apes, and apes to humans, according to Cadell Last, a doctoral student in ...

Study with aye-ayes, slow loris finds that prosimians prefer alcohol Study sheds new light on the origins of human alcohol consumption Date: July 19, 2016 Source: Dartmouth College Summary: In the ...

These results, combined with recent evidence of male infanticide (largely directed towards male infants) suggest a more complicated social dynamic among the prosimians than primatologists ...

The characteristics of this fossil do conform, in general terms, with what an animal near the split between prosimians and anthropoids should look like, based on the other lines of evidence ...

And prosimians are a great model for these basal primate adaptations." Brannon admits that she began her studies of lemurs -- supported by funds from the Primate Center -- with little hope of success.

Mankind is undergoing a major evolutionary transition comparable to the shifts from prosimians to monkeys, monkeys to apes, and apes to humans, according to Cadell Last, an evolutionary ...

“The smartest species were clearly the great apes — orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas — which performed much better than monkeys and prosimians.” ...

Unlike other prosimians though, the aye-aye has a genetic mutation in common with humans and great apes that allows it to metabolize alcohol 40 times faster than animals lacking the mutation ...

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