Human opinion formation has evolved to favor survival and social cohesion. Understanding this enables us to develop more ...

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Chimpanzees are losing their homes, but it’s not too late. World chimpanzee day shows us why they matter and how we can help.

This study reveals that "baby talk” has developed particularly in humans, even though other species – monkeys, bats, cats and ...

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

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

At the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, one group of captive chimps has taken to dangling grass out of their ears, a trend ...

In Zambia, a peculiar trend has swept through a group of chimpanzees: blades of grass, stylishly dangling from ears and their ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...