The Primate Rescue Center has been tucked away on private land in Jessamine County for 30 years, yet many central Kentuckians ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

A new study suggests that primates like bonobos are capable of understanding the difference between imagination and reality.

Daniella E. Chusyd discusses how variation in rates of aging across species can help us understand the consequences of our ...

Some primates may grieve dead infants by carrying their corpses with them, sometimes for months, according to a study examining mothers' responses to death among 50 primate species. The study, ...

2024 had a lot of great movies of all stripes: Sci-fi! Action! Comedy! Animation! Thrillers! But there was one micro-genre that had a particularly noteworthy year: the primate picture. At least five ...