In 1992, graduate student Yasumasa Ishida discovered PD-1, marking the beginning of a journey that would make this molecule a ...

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...

On Jicarón Island, a lush patch of tropical forest floating off the coast of Panama, something strange is unfolding in the ...

The genomic assembling advances and applying other methodologies over ITS, and their flanking regions, can help to understand the telomere participation in the chromosomal evolution in species groups ...

I recently had the honor of speaking with Frans de Waal, one of the world’s foremost experts in primatology, on The Nature & Nurture Podcast. We spoke about his new book Different: Gender ...

Called Kentia Palms, Professor Savolainen is part of a study team examining how it is that these palms found enough evolutionary elbow room on the small island to speciate into unique trees.

Phys.org reported that researcher Lydia Luncz of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology stated: "Nonhuman primates share a common evolutionary history with humans, and their study can ...

residents have stumbled upon the corpses of monkeys “that dropped dead from the trees,” Morato said — sometimes, as many as 10 bodies at a time. Other primates that were found still clinging ...

In 2015, a genetic study in the journal Nature suggested that the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off the evolutionary tree in its own direction 64 million years ...

This cognitive convergence suggests that humans and certain birds faced similar selective pressures for intelligence, providing fascinating examples of parallel evolution that helped shape our ...

Researchers merged genetic data from 9,239 bird species (from nearly 300 studies) plus 1,000 curated entries to build a complete, shareable evolutionary tree. Published in PNAS and integrated into the ...