Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the ...

Northwestern University research has provided direct experimental evidence that gut microbes influence brain function and ...

On July 15, 2008, Mary Silcox answered selected viewer questions about our earliest primate ancestors, what it's like to do fieldwork, and other matters paleontological. Please note we are no longer ...

pt. 1 : Background. A brief history of primate field studies / Robert Sussman -- Socioecology history / Joyce Parga and Deborah Overdorff -- Primate evolution and taxonomy / Walter Hartwig -- pt. 2 : ...

Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she ...

How primates get from A to B gives vital information about their cognitive evolution, say researchers in a new study looking at the travel paths of animals in the wild. Using data from 164 wild ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Mary Silcox: Yes, I love doing fieldwork! Finding fossils is ...

Noted primatologists Netzin and Dieter Steklis will discuss "Gorilla Fathers: Do they help us understand the importance of the human family?" Wednesday at a free lecture at Academy Village, 13715 E.

"I think that most zoo people and primate field biologists now agree that reintroduction is rarely the method of choice for primate conservation. Habitat restoration and protection, and improvements ...

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 ...

Using data from 164 wild primate populations, the global survey examines the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves, use to know where and when to travel in the most efficient way. How ...

Last week I received a copy of a very important book by Dr. Benjamin Beck called Unwitting Travelers: A History of Primate Reintroduction. I was very much taken in by the title, and in the book's ...