Science news articles about 'primate ancestors'

... primates and our own up-right, two-legged walking. Scientists think our earliest primate ancestors, which were only the size of large rats, underwent a number of fundamental evolutionary changes as ...

... origins of laughter back to the last common ancestor that humans shared with the modern great apes ... humans split from the evolutionary path that led to our primate cousins, between 10m and 16m years ago ...

... in the innate immune response. They found it not only in humans and their more recent primate ancestors, such as chimpanzees, but also primates that split off on the evolutionary tree tens of ...

... spam: short repeated sequences that have no obvious function other than making more of themselves. After starting out in our primate ancestors 65 million years ago, one type of repetitive DNA called ...