Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi may ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

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