We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to ...

Hollywood's biggest night, the Academy Awards, arrives this weekend, but this year there's some monkey business going on.

The Conclusion: There is a grooming response in humans parallel to that in primates. It is predominantly female. Sorry, ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

The modern Planet of the Apes film series, which launched with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is one of the more unlikely Hollywood success stories in recent memory. Breathing new life into ...

In humans, sexual behavior has a bigger purpose ... A new study has extended sexuality's social role to our closest animal species—apes. An international team of scientists has found that ...