How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution? Understanding ... grand patterns and radical changes on the tree of life. In other words, mutation ...

More recent versions of this hypothesis emphasize the importance of nocturnal visual predation to the evolution of the primate visual system. Biegert, J. The evaluation of characteristics of the ...

To help you explore this tree and understand the amazing mechanism behind it, we’ve created the NOVA Evolution Lab. Play this Lab and you’ll be on your way to becoming an expert in ...

In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the four other hominids apart from one another.*—Rima Chaddha ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Recent research has suggested that twins were actually quite common back during primate evolution ... of species across the mammalian family tree and then used mathematical algorithms to identify ...

By the anatomy of its limbs and claws, the team believes that it lived in trees and could vertically cling to tree trunks and branches ... shared with other early primate relatives.” ...