As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

Washoe passed away in Ellensburg on October 30, 2007, at the age of 42. Her legacy includes the formation of the CWU Primate Behavior program, a wholly unique and interdisciplinary approach to the ...

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From 2014-2016, a severe El Niño event triggered a drought across Central and South America, leading to unprecedented ...

Mammoth Biosciences researchers have developed NanoCas, an ultracompact CRISPR nuclease, demonstrating its ability to perform ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of animal ... Lameira believes that as evolution stripped ancient primates of their ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...