A new study finds humanity's closest living relatives will chew plants and apply makeshift poultices to wounds, and use ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal ...

A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Oxford and published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ...

Today, herbalism and wild plant foraging has become an increasingly popular alternative to modern medicine. Herbal medicine is still widely used among American-Indian, Chinese and European populations ...

Researchers monitoring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, noticed that individuals were helping each other ...

Medicinal cannabis comes in different forms, such as oils, capsules, dried flower (used in a vaporizer), sprays and edible ...

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A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Chimps in the wild use medicinal leaves to perform "First Aid" on their friends and family, reveals new research. They also ...

Chimpanzees don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too. In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have ...

This line of research, broadly, suggests that primates are capable of finding and determining the medicinal value of plants. “Chimpanzees rely on the forest, not just for food, and not just for ...