Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee ... In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the ...

Many people are perplexed by the similarities in appearance between monkeys and chimps ... a family of mammals known as ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

How did humans ... evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the "lesser apes" (siamangs and gibbons) as well as the "great apes" (chimpanzees, bonobos ...

Yet, as you get closer to humans on the evolutionary tree, tails disappear. Gorillas don't have them. And neither do chimps or any ... Some of us primates crouch with our chests held diagonally ...

Your concern with gorilla conservation is appreciated. 1 We do, however, have a problem with the concept of permitting human tours in the wild animals' living areas. Having spent more than 40 years ...

The primates depended on figs. To determine if the green figs are edible, chimpanzees ascend trees and make a series of sensory assessments. They look at the fig's colour, smell the fig ...

Of all primates ... apes. First Family: toe bones Toe bones found among the First Family are long compared to those of humans, but they don't curve forward toward the heel as they do in modern ...