Introduction. Primate locomotion : toward a synergy of laboratory and field research / Evie Estelle Vereecke and Kristiaan D'Août -- Translating primate locomotor biomechanical variables from the ...

Q: What can living animals tell us about the behavior of extinct animals that we otherwise only know from fossils? A: When you look at the fossil record, all you have really is a pile of bones. It's a ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

Locomotion in non-human primates, including walking, climbing, and brachiating among other types of movement (but not pacing), is a species-typical behavior that varies with age, social housing ...

This photograph shows two species from the study by Toussaint et al. – a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) – climbing on vertical supports. Researchers have shed new light on ...