A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has taken a fresh look at data from the brains of humans, chimpanzees, ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Discover the 10 smartest animals on Earth! From tool-using primates to problem-solving birds and social dolphins.

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

Kanzi was raised at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, where scientists spent a few years trying to ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

The bonobo Kanzi, who learned to make stone tools, play Minecraft and communicate at the level of a 2-year-old human, has ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two ...