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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sequencing of species from other branches of the primate evolutionary tree, in particular the New World monkeys and strepsirrhine primates, will provide increased power to identify conserved ...

Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago Date: April 18, 2002 Source: Field Museum Summary: New research that accounts for gaps in the fossil record challenges ...

In one of the papers co-authored by Fernandez-Duque, researchers combined the new dataset with information from the fossil record to create the most complete, time-calibrated phylogeny, or ...

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 ...

This revision has implications throughout the evolutionary tree of primates, including the time of origin of the human lineage. Key findings from the new approach to interpreting the fossil record ...

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 ...

Nearly every node and branch is unambiguously defined by genetic data, allowing a high level of confidence in reconstructing the primate evolutionary tree," Dr Pecon-Slattery said. Humans belong ...

They found that masturbation has a long evolutionary history amongst primates ... in males co-evolved with high STI load across the primate tree of life. The significance of female masturbation ...