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

They presented young and adult apes with videos of either a human hand (a social model) or a mechanical claw (a non-social model) building a tower. The results showed that while adult apes ...

"It really is a jaw-dropping find," says Carol Ward, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Missouri who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a term for humans and other nonape ...

Researchers Thursday offered the most complete view yet of fossil skeletons from a forerunner of humankind named Australopithecus sediba that lived 2 million years ago. (Photo: Lee R. Berger ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

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Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs. A range of ...

However, in addition to the technology being far off, the ending shows us that humans are still a force to be reckoned with. The apes might be a long way from their utopia, but this is still a ...