These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about preventing school shootings? How evolution, neuroscience, and social dynamics shape ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

Cranial Size and Shape Next to phylogeny, perhaps the most pervasive influence on primate cranial form is body size. In primates, as in other mammals, the physical dimensions of the major cranial ...

Sixty million years ago most primates had twins automatically but our mammalian ancestors ceased birthing them to give us an evolutionary advantage, according to the findings of a new study.

Tesla Monson, an associate professor of anthropology at Western Washington University in the United States, and her team have been studying the evolution of the number of children that primates ...