Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses 455 primates, every species for which genetic data are available.

to evaluate four alternative models of social evolution (Fig. 2), including the two described above, on a posterior distribution of primate trees. The simplest model estimates a single rate of ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

Every little step adds to the understanding of our human family tree because we're also primates ... consequences for understanding primate evolution in the Old World," said Michael Habib ...

or whether grooming claws evolved – and perhaps even re-evolved – independently within different parts of the primate evolutionary tree. For the moment, though, the work of Maiolino and co ...

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 ...

A simplified evolutionary tree of primate relationships showing the placement of Darwinius in relationship to other groups. From Williams et al., 2010. The study of human origins can be a ...

Their assessment of the bones, which belong to ancient, rat-sized, tree-dwelling primates, bolsters the controversial idea that primates native to what is now India played an important role in the ...

Although that ancestral primate must have solved the problem ... offering critical insight into the hominid evolution from trees to land. “Climbing up and down trees is very important if ...