Chimpanzees don't just randomly use sticks to fish for termites. A study reveals they meticulously select plants with ideal ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Understanding how chimpanzees have adapted to survive in the wild can shed light on key questions in human biology and ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Researchers find wild chimpanzees prefer plants 2.75 times more flexible, indicating sophisticated understanding of material ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

A chimpanzee at San Francisco Zoo and Gardens who was said to be one of the oldest in the United States died this week at the ...