The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to navigate on a daily basis,” says team member Zanna Clay, also at Durham ...

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The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute ...

Kanzi first learned to communicate with humans at Georgia State University ... I was Fangirl nervous and asked how I should greet him – with a pant grunt like in chimps? No, I was told. Just speak ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

Humans are capable of a great many things due in large part to the physical size of our brains. Our brain organs are simply much larger than that of chimps and apes, and the huge number of neurons ...