primates

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When their habitats are lost, often through deforestation, primates are prevented from moving freely.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

It is easy to see why scientists had assumed primates evolved in warm and wet climates.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

It took millions of years before primates colonized the tropics, the study shows.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

Even more striking, in more than 500 wild primates, across 27 species both living and fossil, we found no trace of a common modern dental disease: deep, V-shaped gumline notches called abfraction lesions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Many arboreal primates must have vanished with the forests.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan