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 ...

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 ...

Per-Anders Pettersson via Getty Images A new, massive catalog of primate genomes is painting an ever-clearer picture of the group’s evolutionary tree—and humans’ place in it. In a collection ...

Getting out of a tree presented a new set of challenges for these bigger primates, since typically ... appears to be significant in the evolution of apes and early humans.

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 ...

For this research, scientists studied primate species that exist today to infer ... This social data was combined with a phylogenetic tree — also known as an evolutionary tree — as well as with data ...

We have been researching the evolution of primate litter ... is quite a different experience from our tiny primate ancestors birthing in the trees 60 million years ago. But having twins can ...

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 ...

While shifting climates shaped primate evolution over geologic time scales, including leading some that lived in trees to move to the ground, Eppley said he doesn’t expect any of the 47 species ...