As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

That was my first field work ever. I was living out of a tent doing some lemur research ... For more information or to ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers—they all provide a continuous stream of ...

A study of rhesus macaques revealed that infants who experienced higher levels of maltreatment by their mothers tended to ...

Discover how gut bacteria may have influenced the development of our large brains. Dive into the groundbreaking study that ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of ...

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...

Alpha Genesis monkeys that escaped over a month ago are still on the loose. They fled from the sprawling research facility ...

When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of "noise," which is spontaneous electrical activity that comes ...

Hope for a much-needed treatment for the common pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia has been raised by a successful test of ...

Scientists discover gut bacteria's impact on human brain size. A Northwestern University study reveals a link between gut ...