Apart from climate change, anthropogenic factors, meaning human activities like habitat destruction, pollution, hunting etc, may or may not have played a role in the drop of the population of the primate species
As part of the study, the CCMB researchers collaborated with a team of international researchers to assemble 239 primate genomes and compared them with 202 other mammalian genomes to identify thousands of gene regulatory elements are the evolutionarily conserved in primates but not in other mammals
