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 ...

Long before it became a familiar sign of romance or affection, kissing appears to have taken shape among the earliest ancestors of humans and other great apes. A new study led by the University of ...

Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient near-primates lived above the Arctic Circle some 52 million years ago, according to new ...

The only hibernating primate in the trees of Madagascar The fat-tailed dwarf lemur lives in the tropical forests of Madagascar, yet behaves more like a ground squirrel than a typical primate. Known ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) As inhabitants of Earth, we humans are relative newbies. In fact, our branch of the evolutionary tree may have split from that of the apes only about ...

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