The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

SINGAPORE – People often have different eye colours depending on where they originally come from. Like humans, primates boast varied eye colouration too. Now, a group of scientists from the National ...

Gene Regulation in Primates Evolves under Tissue-Specific Selection Pressures: Regulatory changes have long been hypothesized to play an important role in primate evolution. To identify adaptive ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

What events led to differences between humans and other primates? What changes throughout evolution underlie such a dramatic shift in how we socialize and process information? Although somewhat ...

Old World monkeys and apes that are more social have more complex facial patterns. Species that have smaller group sizes tend to have simpler faces with fewer colors. UCLA Facebook may have been ...

Killing a rival and squabbling over food turn out to be statistically distant behaviors across the primate family tree. A ...

Aggressive behavior in primates can manifest itself in different ways, from ordinary conflicts within a group to deadly ...

(Anup Shah/Stone RF/Getty Images) Human languages are complex and versatile. They reflect our intelligence, our cultures, our need to understand and be understood. Our languages tend to follow ...