The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Researchers have unearthed the tiny, fossilized teeth of the earliest-known relative of primates, pushing its range further south than ever before and giving us new insights into how it spread through ...

Research suggests 66 percent of primate species are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of primate species are in decline. In many ways, humans are largely to blame. While ...

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

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Bonobos remain the "make love, not war" primates of the animal kingdom, but new studies prove they still have an edge.

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives. "For a ...

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...