P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

But with the advent of molecular studies it has become clear that chimpanzees share a more recent common ancestor with humans, and are thus more closely related to us than they are to gorillas (e ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

This is thought to give monkeys, which are social creatures, a more complex way of communicating with each other. All other primates, and even ancient human ancestors, appear to have this special ...

Though the reason behind this action is unclear, researchers suggest socially consuming alcohol may have offered evolutionary benefits to a common ancestor of both humans and chimps ...