Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The genetic diversity and evolutionary history of primates – the group that includes monkeys, apes, lemurs and humans – has been ...

An “amazingly complete” 55-million-year-old fossil found in China is the oldest primate skeleton ever discovered, researchers say. The new species illustrates a critical juncture on the primate family ...

Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in Afro-Eurasian primates, a family tree that includes chimps, bonobos, and us ...

A primate fossil that was hyped as revealing the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans is, in fact, as distant a relative as a primate could be, scientists say. The Darwinius ...

A famous fossil of an early primate has more in common with modern lemurs than researchers previously thought based on how its teeth erupted, University of Toronto researchers say. By looking at the ...

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