Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic ...

These fall into three major groups: 172 Old World monkeys and apes (Catarrhini), 146 New World monkeys (Platyrrhini), and 144 lemurs, lorises, and galagos (Strepsirrhini). They’re not just ...

Primates, consisting of apes, monkeys, tarsiers, and lemurs, are among the most charismatic and well-studied animals on Earth, yet there is no taxonomically complete molecular timetree for the group.

In today’s edition of Wrong Things I Learned From School, we correct a long-held misconception that the Philippine tarsier is the world’s smallest primate. For decades, textbooks claimed that the ...

The functional peripheral cardiac sympathetic pathways of the dog were delineated in isovolumetric left ventricle preparations. In unpaced hearts, supramaximal stimuli at 2 cycles/sec to the right ...

Not surprisingly, the holy grail in this quest has been the identification of heterothermic primates, whose presence appears restricted to the order of Strepsirrhini (Lovegrove, 2012). So far, no ...

At least two fossil primate species thought to be stem members of the Strepsirrhini appear to have had grooming claws, yet reconstructions of the ancestral euprimate condition based on direct evidence ...

Image caption, The primates at the centre include lemurs, lorises and galagos - all from the strepsirrhini family, a species older than monkeys and apes. This picture shows very young examples of ...