A pioneering project led by researchers from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute has opened the door for ...

Desmond Morris, the zoologist who has died aged 98, was a writer on human and animal behaviour who achieved world renown with ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

His immensely popular, and controversial, 1967 book, “The Naked Ape,” argued that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and ...

How did human intelligence evolve? The release of the EVApeCognition dataset provides 18 years of standardized data on great ...

The Human Ape Humans evolved much more quickly than any of their primate cousins or ancestors. All pans, for example, are pretty much the size and weight their ancestors were when the pan line split ...

Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...