primates

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Warmer global temperatures don’t seem to have sped up the spread or evolution of primates into new species.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

With smaller populations, restricted to smaller and less diverse areas, today’s primates lack the genetic diversity to adapt to changing environments.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

One of the earliest known primates was Teilhardina, a tiny tree dweller weighing just 28 grams – similar to the smallest primate alive today, Madame Berthae’s mouse lemur.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

Otherwise, all primates are at risk of extinction, ourselves included.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston