Primates are our closest living biological relatives. So perhaps it's time to show a little hospitality and stop destroying their homes. About 60 percent of the world's monkeys, apes, tarsiers ...

While both monkeys and chimps are primates, chimps are members of the ape family, which vastly differs from monkeys. In ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

“Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos–flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia– making them fairly close relatives of humans.” Mixodectes belonged to an ...

You can’t beat a cheeky bit of monkey business, as shown on Primates, the new BBC One natural history series. Over three episodes, humankind’s closest relatives deal with all kinds of ...

Paleontology and Primate Evolution explores the prehistory of our closest relatives - the primates - to discover ways in which they are similar to and different from us, and to locate the origin ...

Analyses of these genomes overwhelmingly support the hypothesis that chimpanzees are our closest relatives, but speciation occurred over such a brief period of time that it left our genome a ...

Studying how these distant primate relatives slow aging during hibernation may reveal new strategies for supporting healthy ...

which is a standard for human and nonhuman primate comparisons in research, but also between humans and chimpanzees, humans’ closest living relative. Notably, the chimpanzee brain scans used in ...

A hamster-sized primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is our closest genetic relative known to hibernate. They also tend to live longer than you’d expect given their size.