Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and ...

Elephants aren’t just intelligent; they’re intentional. A new behavioral study reveals that African Savannah elephants use ...

The lineage emerged in North America millions of years after the apparent extinction of all other known primates on the continent, making the taxon a “Lazarus” species—one that crops up ...

New evidence suggests an ancient primate lineage safely traveled from Africa to South America on a raft of vegetation. It was a one-in-a-million chance—and it happened more than once.

The most comprehensive genomic study ever on primates - a group whose membership includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and people - has revealed pivotal genetic traits that are uniquely human while ...

By accounting for incomplete lineage sorting across primates, Rivas-González et al. were able to produce a primate phylogeny that agrees with fossil estimates, unlike past attempts.

From there, many primate lineages, including ours, evolved to have increasingly larger bodies and brains. Our new research also shows that the switch from birthing twins to birthing singletons ...

The researchers compared the DNA of two groups of primates: monkeys, which have tails, and hominoids - humans and apes - which do not. They found a mutation in a gene called TBXT that was present ...

You may think Nebraska and China have little in common, but the two places definitely share one ancient similarity: the presence of a 30-million-year-old primate lineage which headed to North ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back ...