The complex unfolding of human evolution over ... or Antarctica). Primates scamper on the tops of branches, swing beneath them, and even leap acrobatically from tree to tree.

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 ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that ...

The extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago helped create an environment where fruits could thrive, leading to the ...

Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are now agreed ... shrinking the habitat where tree-dwelling primates lived and foraged. Another factor possibly upsetting the East African environment ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions ...