Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

A new study has reported its findings from a rather curious experiment: getting a bunch of chimpanzees to watch a disembodied ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of brain cells.

Scientists observed chimpanzees in Uganda appearing to clean and treat both their own wounds and those of others. Scientists ...

Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others’ wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare ...

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even ...

University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each ...

Bonobos and chimpanzees are the species most closely ... common to great ape species and humans — likely spurred the evolution of more complex communication and eventually the ability to form ...