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Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...
Discover Magazine

Human Childbirth May Not Be Uniquely Difficult, as Some Squirrel Monkey Babies Have Heads Nearly Twice the Size of Their Mothers' Pelvic Space

Learn how 3D models of primate birth canals found that squirrel monkeys, bushbabies, and other small species may face a ...

A Long-Standing Theory of Childbirth Is a Myth

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...
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Completing the timetree of primates: a new way to map the evolutionary history of life on Earth

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...
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4 Types of Primates Explained

As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant ...
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Primates: Facts about the group that includes humans, apes, monkeys and other close relatives

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains ...
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Completing the 'timetree' of primates: A new way to map the evolutionary history of life on Earth

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...