For the first time, scientists have recorded wild monkeys in the Amazon contracting human hepatitis B virus (HBV). The ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

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Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors such as decision-making, reasoning, planning, and attention. In a new ...

A team of evolutionary scientists, dermatologists and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan, Kenya and France has found that human skin wounds take nearly three times as ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess ...

We are the worst primates when it comes to wound healing, according to a new study. Our wounds heal nearly three times slower than those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and other ...

Examples for positive, neutral and negative expressions. Copyright held by the authors. Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

Optic neuropathies are a group of disorders characterized by damage or dysfunction of the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the retina to the brain. Common causes include glaucoma, ...