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  • Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
  • The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
  • Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps

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boingboing.net /1 month ago

Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference

Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, a...

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sciencedaily.com /3 weeks ago

The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic cond...

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

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...

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neurosciencenews.com /2 weeks ago

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...

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news.mongabay.com /2 weeks ago

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...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Great apes: What we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading center of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees there using touchscreen controls to navigate virtual forests an...

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neurosciencenews.com /4 weeks ago

Great Apes Shatter Human Models of Social Intelligence

Great ape cognition is highly individualized, dynamic, and structurally distinct from human intelligence.

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bioengineer.org /4 weeks ago

Great Apes Display Individual Thinking Styles Similar to Humans, Study Finds

For decades, the scientific community has been deeply invested in unraveling the cognitive mysteries of great apes, seeking insights that might illuminate the evolutionary pathway...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

Apes can imagine too

Turns out imagination is not unique to humans. A series of experiments has shown that a language-trained bonobo was able to distinguish real from fake objects and engage in pretend...

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phys.org /1 month ago

New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours can shape tools, manipulate objects, and perform detailed...

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nytimes.com /18 hours ago

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.

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Primate brains might have evolved to 'catch up' with larger bodies, but then kept growing

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larg...

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boingboing.net /3 weeks ago

Lemur makes an alarming sound when communicating

The Indri is the largest living lemur and one of the most distinctive primates in Madagascar. It lives only in the eastern rainforests of the island and is known for its striking b...

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scientificamerican.com /19 hours ago

Scientists discover a ‘remarkable’ new monkey species with orange lips and a froglike roar

The new species, Colobus congoensis, may already be endangered

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newscientist.com /2 weeks ago

Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find the birth process just as difficult

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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

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...

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discovermagazine.com /1 month ago

Humans and Chimpanzees Have Surprisingly Similar Wrists — Both May Trace Back to a Knuckle-Walking Ancestor

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking roots. 

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