Researchers from the Department of Anthropology Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) examined the factors driving hair variation in a wild population of lemurs known as Indriidae. Their findings were published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Hair-Raiser: Primate Fur Teases Human Evolution
Anthropology researchers combed through fur patterns in wild lemurs to cut into evolutionary mysteries of human hair growth.
May 11, 2022
The Milne-Edwards's sifaka, sporting the classic black and white pigmentation pattern, found in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar (Photo: NRowe, AllTheWorldsPrimates.org)