Natural killer cells – a vital part of the immune system – have a dual role in protecting against infection and ensuring reproduction. Scientists...
New research shows that disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and that the additional time and energy required to...
Chimpanzee behaviour suggests tree-to-ground transition occurred before the emergence of ancient humans.
Our earliest ancestors may have started walking on two limbs instead of four in a bid to monopolise resources and to carry as much food as possible...
A Cambridge PhD student is swapping the comforts of city life for a small hammock in the jungle while he studies orang-utans in Borneo for the next...
The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at...
Cambridge anthropologists are increasingly looking at human evolution not just as a path through the remote past, but also as a way to explore...
Ground-breaking discoveries by two Cambridge researchers have placed monkey behaviour closer to humans than had previously been thought. Dr Antonio...
