Humans sleep less than every other primate on record, despite having the biggest brains — biologists call it the human sleep ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

A new HIV vaccine developed by La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), Scripps Research scientists and IAVI has the potential to protect humans from developing HIV infection and AIDS. This HIV ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

A new study challenges the long-held idea that early primates began in warm tropical forests. Fossil and climate evidence suggests some early primates may have lived in cold, dry North American ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

From lemurs to orangutans, tarsiers to gorillas, primates are captivating and sometimes unnervingly similar to us. So it’s not surprising that this group of more than 500 species receives a great deal ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

Animal welfare advocates say these highly intelligent and social species suffer when transported continuously between ...

A study investigated whether the genes for schizophrenia and autism appeared more frequently as mammals evolved bigger brains ...