A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to ...

This photograph shows two species from the study by Toussaint et al. – a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) – climbing on vertical supports. Researchers have shed new light on ...

Ecology: Social and environmental factors associated with same-sex behaviour in primates 非ヒト霊長類（non-human primates）における同性間の性的行動は、生態学的要因、生活史、および社会構造と関連していることを報告する論文が、Nature Ecology & Evolution ...

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.

進化の初期から果実食でなかったロリス霊長類 ――霊長類にとって一般に重要な甘味感覚も食性次第では弱くなる―― 【発表のポイント】 果実をあまり食べないロリス類という霊長類の仲間は、甘味を感じるTAS1R2遺伝子が進化の過程であまり保存されて ...

You might find the lemur mongoose in Madagascar and the raccoon in the deciduous forests of North America, but they have one important thing in common: both species spend a lot of time climbing trees.

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...