The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

That scratch on your arm, that scrape on your knee - they're taking their sweet time to heal, and it's likely the fault of your fur, or, really, your lack thereof. Testing the speed of skin healing in ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

AMES, Iowa – A new study from an Iowa State University biologist shows that menopause in mid-life is a uniquely human phenomenon among primates. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National ...

Dr. Jay Rappaport, director of the 350 employees at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, says the primary focus of the $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health is to optimize ...

A team in the Hübner and Diecke Labs at the Max Delbrück Center have shown how human and non-human primate hearts differ genetically. The study, published in “Nature Cardiovascular Research,” reveals ...

The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

Humans and chimpanzees share a close evolutionary relationship, genetically linking us. As a result, the two species can pass on infection and disease to one another. The world is full of potential ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In an exploration of the influence of monogamy on eusocial societies, Dr Mark Dyble found that the white-handed gibbon had the closest level of monogamy to humans, with a rate of 63.5 per cent. Our ...