Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

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

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

Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant alpha male. One day he was separated from the group for some health checkups ...

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

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 ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has spent the last 40 years of her life traveling the world, sharing her ...