But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species. Built by ...

Every little step adds to the understanding of our human family tree because we're also primates ... consequences for understanding primate evolution in the Old World," said Michael Habib ...

"Current interpretations of primate and human evolution are flawed because paleontologists have relied too heavily on direct interpretation of the known fossil record," says Robert D. Martin, PhD ...

What is macroevolution? Why is it important? How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution? Understanding macroevolution is important because it explains ...

Getting out of a tree presented a new set of challenges for these bigger primates, since typically ... appears to be significant in the evolution of apes and early humans.

In one of the papers co-authored by Fernandez-Duque, researchers combined the new dataset with information from the fossil record to create the most complete, time-calibrated phylogeny, or ...

Per-Anders Pettersson via Getty Images A new, massive catalog of primate genomes is painting an ever-clearer picture of the group’s evolutionary tree—and humans’ place in it. In a collection ...

We, and a few other primates, are bipedal — meaning we ... But at some point, our evolutionary trees branched off. So perhaps the conclusions we can draw from this data are limited.

Only primates (and a handful of ... forage fruits and nuts at the end of tree branches, says Doug Boyer, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University.

We have been researching the evolution of primate litter ... is quite a different experience from our tiny primate ancestors birthing in the trees 60 million years ago. But having twins can ...

While shifting climates shaped primate evolution over geologic time scales, including leading some that lived in trees to move to the ground, Eppley said he doesn’t expect any of the 47 species ...