Male primates may be larger than females partly because of pressure from rival groups, not just competition with males inside ...

In many primate species, males are much larger than their female counterparts, which is generally attributed to male ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

Scientists hope fieldwork here will reveal clues to human evolution and adaptation.

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New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives. "For a ...

And to mark his 100th birthday, the BBC also revisited it in a new documentary called Making Life on Earth: Attenborough's ...

Bonobos are known to make at least 38 distinct calls Flickr / Creative Commons Compared to humans, most primates produce a limited range of vocalizations: At one end of the spectrum, there’s the ...

From lemurs to orangutans, tarsiers to gorillas, primates are captivating and sometimes unnervingly similar to us. So it’s not surprising that this group of more than 500 species receives a great deal ...

Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...