Skulls of 29 million year old primates used in this study Aegyptopithecus on left Parapithecus on right. Credit: Matt Borths Skulls of 29 million year old primates used in this study Aegyptopithecus ...

Increased meat consumption, cooking, agriculture, and diseases likely led to significant differences in the saliva of humans and their closest evolutionary relatives, gorillas and chimpanzees, ...

For decades, tiny grooves on fossilized human teeth were believed to be signs of early dental hygiene, evidence that ancient people used sticks or plant fibers as primitive toothpicks. But new ...

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Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.View full profile Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. What did early primates munch on to ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t mean our diets are anything alike. Here’s why. Our closest genetic relative is ...

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

Researchers have found monkeys in South and Central America that mix more fruit into their daily diet than a Jamba Juice addict. According to the BBC, researchers analyzed primate diets from 290 ...

A mouse lemur grasps onto a tree branch in Madagascar. Scientists looked to characteristics in such modern primates to form a hypothesis about how primates behaved after an asteroid wiped out ...

Turns out our love of sweet food goes back – way back – to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found. The work sheds light on the dietary habits of early anthropoids, ...