primates

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Humans are social primates, and our perceptions of what’s normal or desirable are shaped by those around us.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2026

Challenging and changeable conditions are likely to have favored primates that moved around a lot in search of food and better habitat.

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

The results are surprising: rather than evolving in warm tropical environments as scientists previously thought, it seems early primates lived in cold and dry regions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

Many arboreal primates must have vanished with the forests.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan