Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Primate and Human Evolution provides a synthesis of the evolution and adaptive ...

The chapters range from primate origins to the advent of anatomically modern humans. Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the ...

What is macroevolution? Why is it important? How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution? Understanding macroevolution is important because it explains ...

Since we cannot study our extinct human ancestors, scientists all over the world still look to our closest primate cousins to fill the gaps in our knowledge about the evolution of something as ...

We need to know how humans look different from other primates so we can trace the anatomical changes that occurred to get to that point. Q: What can lemurs tell us about the evolution of human ...

From the present, human perspective, it’s not hard to understand the value of fingernails: We might use our upper nails to ...

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...

“Among terrestrial nonhuman primates, including great apes ... "This is consistent with the loss of fur during human evolution." At the same time as the reduction of hair, Lameira noted ...

In primate groups, social bonding through grooming ... Given its biological roots and cultural complexity, the evolution of ...

of these primates. Given their similarities with humans, marmosets are an important model for studying the evolution of ...