Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

Primates—the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans—first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...

Crania, ulnae, and femora of (left to right): a chimpanzee, Sahelanthropus, and Australopithecus. (Courtesy of Scott Williams/NYU and Jason Heaton/University of Alabama Birmingham.) (CN) — The ability ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

The origin of primates / David Tab Rasmussen -- The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians / Herbert H. Covert -- Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation / Daniel L Gebo -- ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...