... advance scientific understanding and to improve the health and well-being of humans and nonhuman primates. Today, the center, as one of only eight National Institutes of HealthÐfunded national primate ...
... sustainable speed, sensors measured oxygen level changes within a chamber to derive the primates’ energy consumption.
While climbing was not significantly more demanding for heftier primates than ...
Studies with non-human primates have made major contributions to our understanding of the brain and will continue to be an important, if small, part of neuroscience research, according to a recent ...
... cortex. The cerebral cortex is involved in many of the more complex functions in both humans and other primates, including memory, attentiveness, thought processes and language.
The researchers ...
... honest indicator of individual quality that both sexes can recognize," she said.
Lemurs, distant primate cousins of ours who split from the family tree before the monkeys and apes parted ways, have ...
... between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been ...
... of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts in the Old World. This ...
The trend toward larger brains relative to body size developed independently in isolated groups of primates, according to a new fossil analysis.
... describes tooth structure differences that would separate Anthrasimias from two other ancient lines of primates whose remains have been found at the same level of the Vastan mine. Of the three lines, ...
... the natural hosts for the AIDS viruses, such as the mangabeys and numerous other African primate species who have been found to harbor SIVs in the wild, remain healthy despite infection. Understanding ...
... offers the first direct evidence of wild bonobos hunting and eating the young of other primate species.
"These findings are particularly relevant for the discussion about male dominance and bonding, ...
A loophole in UK animal welfare laws that allows primates to be kept as household pets needs to be closed, an MP urges.
... during the late middle Eocene, west Texas provided a humid, tropical refuge for primates and other arboreal (tree-inhabiting) animals."
The anthropologists named the new primate Diablomomys dalquesti ...
... will confront
each other this week in a battle that will ultimately determine the
future use of primates in medical research in Britain and the rest
of the European Union.The public meeting - to be ...
... says is a distinguishing feature of this species, and distinguishes them from nearly all other primates which have nails and not claws. The claws may be an adaptation to the mossy environment, she ...
