Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

Human-like apes split off from chimps about 5.5 to 6.3 million years ago. Chimps, along with bonobos, are our nearest living primate relatives.

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...