Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... a fairly humble position 65 million years ago, primates, horses, bats, pigs, cats, and dogs had all ...

as in hominid and primate fossils of the past 60 million years. For living groups, physical anthropologists focus on genetic variation, human ecology and nutrition, growth and development, and ...