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 ...

But, beyond the jokes and memes, this silly debate provides an opportunity to reflect on human evolution. What are the real strengths ... Gorillas, like many primates, have a strong social ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before this ancestor experienced an evolutionary shift toward using ... to differ in shape and form from the hands primates use to swing from trees. However, this evidence has given rise to ...

its place on the mammalian evolutionary tree has been a subject of contention and debate. There’s been a prevailing consensus leaning towards its classification as a primate. But the timing and ...

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.

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 ...