Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced learning and problem-solving abilities ...

Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Recent investigations reveal that primates, such as marmosets, colobus monkeys, and bonobos, possess intricate call patterns.

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 conditions by slowing ...

A research team combining high-energy physicists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., has discovered a type of retinal cell ...