We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved slower healing at some point in our ancestry. When you ...

Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, an evolutionary biologist and primatologist at University of the Ryukyus in Japan, had a front-row seat to the violence between these monkeys, ...

That scratch on your arm, that scrape on your knee - they're taking their sweet time to heal, and it's likely the fault of your fur, or, really, your lack thereof. Testing the speed of skin healing in ...