Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Wild sooty mangabey monkeys can bend the middle of their feet almost as much as chimpanzees flex their…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Humans Evolved from African Ape-Like Ancestor, Research Suggests
In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large…