If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

Primate locomotion and evolution encompass the diverse adaptations that have enabled primates to ... Movement and postural adaptations that enable organisms to navigate tree-dominated environments ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, working with ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Figure 4: Primate evolutionary tree. The ancestral primate karyotype can be constructed from 14 of the 15 primate families (here, excluding Tarsiidae).