Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in Afro-Eurasian primates, a family tree that includes chimps, bonobos, and us ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

Romantic kissing likely evolved for the first time in a common ancestor of humans and other large apes about 21 million years ago, scientists revealed in a new study. Several animals have so far been ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

Primate species with better colour vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur colouration, as previously thought. The findings, published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnean ...

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