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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.