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Primates

Known as: Mammals, Primates, Primata, Primate 
An order of mammals consisting of more than 300 species that include LEMURS; LORISIDAE; TARSIERS; MONKEYS; and HOMINIDS. They are characterized by a… 
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates
Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and understand the processes that mold, shape… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging
Although cells in many brain regions respond to reward, the cortical-basal ganglia circuit is at the heart of the reward system… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
LNA-mediated microRNA silencing in non-human primates
microRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that are important in development and disease and therefore represent a potential… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Learning to Control a Brain–Machine Interface for Reaching and Grasping by Primates
Reaching and grasping in primates depend on the coordination of neural activity in large frontoparietal ensembles. Here we… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Neurogenesis in the neocortex of adult primates.
In primates, prefrontal, inferior temporal, and posterior parietal cortex are important for cognitive function. It is shown that… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts.
Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex.
In recent years, many new cortical areas have been identified in the macaque monkey. The number of identified connections between… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
The evolution of cooperation.
Cooperation in organisms, whether bacteria or primates, has been a difficulty for evolutionary theory since Darwin. On the… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals
Highly Cited
1962
Highly Cited
1962
Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex
What chiefly distinguishes cerebral cortex from other parts of the central nervous system is the great diversity of its cell… 
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