Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. What Is a New World Monkey? -- What is a monkey? -- What is a platyrrhine? -- Platyrrhines and catarrhines -- Platyrrhine taxonomy - ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

Monkeys that adopted an urban lifestyle in India are mostly left-handed – in contrast to humans and many other primates that live on the ground. The findings clash with long-standing claims that ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

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Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...