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Study discovers that primates take care of animals outside their own family

A Celebration of Our Close Kinship with Other Primates

Lennette Newell's new book is a unique fact-filled photographic gem packed with beautiful images accompanied by detailed information about behavior, geography, habitat, and more.

Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifes...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One well-known theory, known as the social brain hypothesis, suggest...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics. … This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition e...

Study Supports and Expands the Primate Brain Lag Hypothesis

A new study utilizes molecular genetic timelines to validate the "brain lag" hypothesis, proving that primate body growth preceded brain expansion. The analysis expands the theory...

Children and monkeys share common understanding of geometry

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creat...

Fossils from Wyoming's Smiley Draw deepen understanding of early primate evolution

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammal...

Orange-Lipped Monkey Photo Helps Scientists Identify New Species

The medium-sized monkey with an orange-colored patch around its nose and mouth, known locally as Likweli, joins a very short list of newly identified African monkey species.

Why some primates have even tougher births than humans

Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

A group of geladas monkeys (Theropithecus gelada), pictured above, huddle to keep warm on a cold day in the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. Endemic to Ethiopia’s cold Afroalpin...

Protecting primates could protect thousands of other species, study finds

As biodiversity on Earth faces rapid decline, scientists are advocating for a new conservation approach: Save habitat for primates and protect countless other species along with th...

Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey. (And Check Out Its Orange Lips.)

It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years.

Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees May Have Been a Skilled Tree Climber

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. 

Last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees could have been a vertical climber, no matter its feet

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.

Comparative studies show humans average ~7 hours of sleep, while many primates sleep 9–12+ hours….

Comparative studies show humans average ~7 hours of sleep, while many primates sleep 9–12+ hours....

Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.

What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the latest research on primates to understand how long we’v...

Fossil study finds vision—not the 'thinking' frontal lobe—drove varied brain development in primates

A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have such large and sophisticated brains. The research finds...

Scientists discover Monkey with orange lips and roaring call as newfound species (video)

A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democrat

Monkeys understand shapes in almost the same way as humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics.Just like people, monkeys seem to grasp the abstract qualities of...

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

A new study reveals that non-human primates share a fundamental intuition for geometry with humans.

Primate Brains May Have Evolved to Match Larger Bodies — Then Continued Growing

In a groundbreaking revisit to a longstanding debate in evolutionary biology, a new study authored by Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford has reignited discussions about the d...