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 ...

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 ...

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

“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, ...

(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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...