Your Place in the Primate Family Tree. Season 1 Episode 61 | 11m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. How did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel to you?

The complete phylogenetic tree of primates, published in the online journal PLoS Genetics, is based on a comparative analysis of some 54 separate gene regions within the genomes of 186 species of ...

Pruning the Primate Family Tree. ... Lemurs are strepsirrhine primates, living members of a diverse group which split from our side of the family tree (the haplorrhines) over 55 million years ago.

Pruning the Primate Family Tree. ... Lemurs are strepsirrhine primates, living members of a diverse group which split from our side of the family tree (the haplorrhines) over 55 million years ago.

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.

Geneticists go ape for better primate family tree. The first gorilla genome and a more detailed look at chimp genetics provide new clues to evolution of humans and their closest relatives.

Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs -- the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a researcher reports. Scientists ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The earliest primate was a tiny, solitary tree dweller that liked the night life. Those are just some conclusions from new reconstructions of the primate common ancestor ...

Scientists Now Know Where the Largest Ape to Ever Exist Sits in Primate Family Tree Proteins from a 1.9 million-year-old molar show that the 10-foot-tall ‘Gigantopithecus’ is a distant ...

Feeling evolution in your guts: Evolutionary biology can benefit from a bit of fecal matter, as it gets the Weird Science treatment this week thanks to the primary component of those samples ...

Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of near-primates lived in the Arctic Circle some 52 million years ago, according to new research.