For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

When, where, and why did they evolve? Species in the fossil record that exhibit all these features will be easy to recognize as primates. However, at some point primates must have evolved from ...

52 million years ago it was a hot and swampy forest where, according to a new study, primitive relatives of primates thrived. "Imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half ...

Primates are mammals with sophisticated cognitive ... Monkeys’ brains are more primitive than apes’. While intelligent, monkeys are pale in contrast to apes in terms of intelligence.

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...