Our new research also shows that the switch from birthing twins to birthing singletons happened multiple times in the primate lineage – a telltale signal that it was advantageous for primates to ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. With nothing but a floating patch of vegetation and the wind at their backs, a prehistoric primate lineage crossed the Atlantic from Africa to ...

are classified to the primate suborder Strepsirrhini. Radiation - process of diversification within a rapidly evolving lineage or the resulting group of species Strepsirrhine - belonging to or ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

ensuring that the findings would apply broadly across the primate lineage. This approach also avoided an overreliance on particularly “cute” species, allowing the researchers to evaluate the ...

As our lineage moved onto land ... have orbits near the sides of their heads. Finally, in our primate ancestors, the eyes moved to the front of the skull. This resulted in better depth perception ...