Keyword

primate evolution

Description: The evolutionary history and diversification of primates, investigated through fossils, comparative anatomy, and molecular biology.

Primary topic: Primate Behavior and Ecology (26%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q3138136

OpenAlex ID: keywords/primate-evolution

Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA

1985 · Masami Hasegawa, Hirohisa Kishino, et al. · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 8,682

Uric acid provides an antioxidant defense in humans against oxidant- and radical-caused aging and cancer: a hypothesis.

1981 · B N Ames, R Cathcart, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2,913

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Evolution at Two Levels in Humans and Chimpanzees

1975 · Mary-Claire King, A. C. Wilson · Science · 2,810

The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution

1995 · Leslie C. Aiello, Peter Wheeler · Current Anthropology · 2,289

The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze

2000 · N.J. Emery · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2,034

The impact of retrotransposons on human genome evolution

2009 · Richard Cordaux, Mark A. Batzer · Nature Reviews Genetics · 1,709

Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution

1982 · Wesley M. Brown, Ellen M. Prager, et al. · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1,555

Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome

2007 · Richard A. Gibbs, Jeffrey Rogers, et al. · Science · 1,401

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Primate adaptation and evolution

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,246

The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest

2000 · Christophe Boesch, Hedwige Boesch-Achermann · 1,079

Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective

2004 · R. I. M. Dunbar · Review of General Psychology · 1,074

KIR: Diverse, Rapidly Evolving Receptors of Innate and Adaptive Immunity

2002 · Carlos Vilches, Peter Parham · Annual Review of Immunology · 986

Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Medicine and Surgery

1996 · Henry Gray, Peter Williams, et al. · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 938

Lemur Social Behavior and Primate Intelligence

1966 · Alison Jolly · Science · 905

Evolutionary History of the Primates

1979 · Elsevier eBooks · 879

Catching fire: how cooking made us human

2010 · Choice Reviews Online · 868

Extrapolating brain development from experimental species to humans

2007 · Barbara Clancy, Barbara L. Finlay, et al. · NeuroToxicology · 813

Primates : comparative anatomy and taxonomy

1953 · W. C. Osman Hill · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 806

Rates of DNA Sequence Evolution Differ Between Taxonomic Groups

1986 · Roy J. Britten · Science · 782

Sex and Friendship in Baboons

2017 · Barbara B. Smuts · Routledge eBooks · 756

Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

2001 · Matsuzawa, Tetsuro · Springer eBooks · 742

Primate origins and evolution: a phylogenetic reconstruction

1990 · Choice Reviews Online · 741

Positive Darwinian selection after gene duplication in primate ribonuclease genes

1998 · Jianzhi Zhang, Helene F. Rosenberg, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 734

Evolution of African Mammals

1978 · Harvard University Press eBooks · 709

Functional Significance of Social Grooming in Primates

1991 · R.I.M. Dunbar · Folia Primatologica · 690

Works count: 9,749

Citation count: 250,500