But with the advent of molecular studies it has become clear that chimpanzees share a more recent common ancestor with humans, and are thus more closely related to us than they are to gorillas (e ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

This practice is similar to that of early human ancestors such as Oldowan hominins, which shares common evolutionary origins in tool making. The study also noticed younger chimps learning from ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University said chimps know when humans are struggling with puzzles and tell them the answers.

“The majority of palaeoanthropologists tend to assume that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans looked like a chimpanzee,” said anatomical scientist Sergio Almecija of the Stony ...

Apes can intuit another’s ignorance, an ability thought to be uniquely human. When apes know their partners are ignorant, ...

One study, conducted by a team in Europe, showed that bees prefer to order lower numbers on the left and higher numbers on ...

(Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans plus all our extinct ancestors and relatives since the split from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.) The Oldowan tools ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

University of Zurich professor Simon Townsend, a study co-author, told Salon at the time that “humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor approximately 6 million years ago. Our data ...

New work led by Roza Kamiloglu, a psychologist at the Free University of Amsterdam, provides evidence that there are just two primary types of laughter: one generated when people find something funny ...

A recent study shed new light on the evolution of tool use, revealing striking similarities between modern chimpanzees and ancient human ancestors in their selection of stone tools. The results of ...