New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

Many automated prompt engineering tools are now available for public use; for example AI company OpenAI just released an AI prompt generator for ChatGPT, while Anthropic made a similar tool available ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...