The Order Primates is an extraordinarily diverse and intelligent group of mammals found throughout Central and South America, Asia, and Africa that comprises 504 species of our closest living ...

Scientists researching primates, called "primatologists," have learned a lot over the years about our closest evolutionary ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Leeds have assembled the largest and most comprehensive family tree of the order primates, including both living and extinct species.

Many people have an interest in "monkeys" but do not fully understand how diverse primates are. In this online anthropology course, you will define the Order Primates, explore global primate ...

IN his Croonian Lecture on “The Developmental History of the Primates”, Prof. J. P. Hill referred to the late Dr. Hans Gadow's subdivision of the Primates into three sub-orders for reasons which I ...

Aim Across a wide variety of organisms, taxa with high local densities (abundance) have large geographical ranges (distributions). We use primatology's detailed knowledge of its taxon to investigate ...