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

Humans sleep less than every other primate on record, despite having the biggest brains — biologists call it the human sleep ...

Researchers from 24 countries have analyzed the genomes of 809 individuals from 233 primate species, generating the most complete catalog of genomic information about our closest relatives to date.

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

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For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as previously thought. Primate species with better colour vision are not more likely to have red skin ...

A new study challenges the long-held idea that early primates began in warm tropical forests. Fossil and climate evidence suggests some early primates may have lived in cold, dry North American ...