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Humans' apparent social learning abilities suggested a clear explanation for our unique ... To illustrate this peculiarity, ...

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

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Humans’ apparent social learning abilities ... the rocks that chimpanzees use to smash nuts. Let’s say these chimps would benefit from using rocks that they can swing as hard and accurately ...

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

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago.