Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, ...

After investigating thousands of wrist bones, scientists suspect the last common ancestor species of humans and chimpanzees ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

Is the instinct to spend more time with close companions and naturally drift from others innate? A study has found that this ...

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

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Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...

A good chunk of human ideology found in a story posted by Science News Daily: The study found ILS with orangutan and chimp in approximately 1% of the human genome. “[I]n about 0.5% of our genome, we ...

Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...