Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

Termites are a good source of energy, fat, vitamins, minerals and protein for chimpanzees ... important implications for understanding how humans might have evolved their remarkable tool using ...

There are fewer than 250,000 chimpanzees left. Scientists make breakthrough discovery after studying chimpanzees: 'Important ...

Understanding how chimpanzees have adapted to survive in the wild can shed light on key questions in human biology and evolution. It can also inform their conservation. However, we know very little ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

However, despite this near-identical genetic blueprint, chimpanzees have not built civilisations or mastered the technological advancements that humans have achieved. What, then, is the key ...