How chimpanzee tool use provides insight into early human behaviour
Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...
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Bonobos Communicate Like Humans, At Least When It Comes to Combining Calls
Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.
Chimp relatives use human-like grammar, study finds
Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...
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Why modern humans have smaller faces than Neanderthals and chimpanzees
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Scientists just uncovered a shocking twist in the story of human evolution
Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...
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Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique
Humans’ apparent social learning abilities suggested a clear ... consider a hypothetical example regarding the rocks that chimpanzees use to smash nuts. Let’s say these chimps would benefit from using ...
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Wild Chimps Build Flexible Tools with Impressive Engineering Skills
The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...
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Jane Goodall reaches the heart with storytelling about chimps and conservation
World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has spent the last 40 years of her life traveling the world, sharing her ...