What features distinguish primates from other mammals? This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution. In addition to having ...

By Spoorthy Raman Charmed by the picturesque beaches and enchanting temple complexes, millions of tourists flock each year to ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

We have been researching the evolution of primate litter size – how many babies grow during each pregnancy – for the past several years. To study mammal evolution and reproductive life history ...

Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green ...

An international team of scientists led by a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst sheds new ...

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

is home to ten primate species, including proboscis monkeys, which occur only in Borneo, two species of leaf monkey, two species of macaque, gibbons, as well as the large-eyed, nocturnal tarsier and ...