The evolution and origin of primate social organisation has attracted the attention of many
researchers, and a solitary pattern, believed to be present in most nocturnal prosimians, has …

Primates include a wide variety of mammals from the relatively ancient lineages of lemurs on
Madagascar and tiny tarsiers of Southeast Asia to the gorillas of montane Africa. Of course …

Although the nail is a small anatomical structure, it can be affected by various tumors and
tumor-like conditions. Because of the distinctive nail anatomy, the clinical presentation of …

Among the characteristics that are thought to set primate quadrupedal locomotion apart from
that of nonprimate mammals are a more protracted limb posture and larger limb angular …

Variation in relative brain size is commonly interpreted as the result of selection on neuronal
capacity. However, this approach ignores that relative brain size is also linked to another …

Interpretation of the adaptive profile of ancestral primates is controversial and has been
constrained for decades by general acceptance of the premise that the first primates were …

Primates of modern aspect (euprimates) are characterized by a suite of characteristics (eg,
convergent orbits, grasping hands and feet, reduced claws, and leaping), but the selective …

Fingernails are a characteristic feature of primates, and are composed of three layers of the
fibrous composite keratin. This study examined the structure and fracture properties of …

Members of the Order Primates are characterised by a wide overlap of visual fields or optic
convergence. It has been proposed that exploitation of either insects or angiosperm …

The primate hand consists of five rays: a pollex containing a metacarpal and two phalanges
and four ulnar rays each containing a metacarpal and three phalanges. Morphology of these …