Scientists piece together genetic links between chimpanzee groups over thousands of years and discovered a surprisingly ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Understanding how these relationships emerge during action organization will be the next key goal ... that the majority of chimpanzees organize actions similarly to humans, through the production ...

Traditional models suggested animals follow reflexive chains, where each action triggers the next, requiring ... social relationships. Chimpanzees, one of humans’ closest relatives, demonstrate ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

Residents of the West African country of Guinea are in shock after a chimpanzee snatched an 8-month ... Click on 'follow', ...

Humans have transmitted Covid-19 to "a panoply of species", but chimpanzees and gorillas, so biologically similar to humans, are particularly at risk. From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

Wild chimpanzees appear to learn skills from each other and then – much as humans do – improve on those techniques from one generation to the next. In particular, young females that migrate ...

This chimpanzee community has some human connections, as Bossu chimps use stone tools the way that scientists believe early humans may have used them. “Primate archaeology is now a well ...

Understanding how these relationships emerge during action organization will be the next key goal ... that the majority of chimpanzees organise actions similarly to humans, through the production ...