Hitherto, no specimen of anthropoid primates had been discovered in America.” Within a few years the novel classification was proved to be a mistake; it was retracted in 1927. Artificial Rain ...

The researchers used specialized computer software to visualize vocalizations and measure voice pitch in recordings from 37 anthropoid primate species, or those most closely related to humans ...

Turns out our love of sweet food goes back – way back – to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found.

Among extant anthropoid primates, the relatively smallest male canines are known in species that are socially characterized by relatively tolerant male-male relationships and male-female codominance, ...

Early Primates May Have Feasted on Soft, Sweet Fruits An analysis of more than 400 fossilized teeth suggests the creatures weren’t eating many seeds, nuts or other hard foods ...

In recent years, paleontologists have feuded over the origins—long assumed to be African—of our very distant ancestors, the anthropoid primates. Fossil expert Beard presents his controversial ...

Several of the anthropoid primates from the site may represent either the direct ancestors of all (or some) living anthropoids. Or they were close relatives of this common ancestor.

Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in ...

An analysis of 37 million year old primate fossils is fueling a debate over the existence of an evolutionary link between lemur-like and monkey-like primates -- a link that could more fully explain ...