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Chimpanzees and bonobos, share close genetic ties with humans but exhibit distinct physical and behavioral traits. Chimpanzees display male-dominated, aggressive tendencies, while bonobos are known ...

On Tuesday, scientists in the United States and Spain said the human hand may be more primitive than that of our closest living cousin, the chimpanzee. In fact, human hands are likely more similar to ...

Gorillas and chimpanzees, though sharing DNA and habitats, exhibit distinct characteristics. Gorillas, the largest primates, ...

The findings show there wasn’t a simple “evolution in hand function where you start off with more ‘ape-like’ and end up more ‘human-like,’” said Smithsonian paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, who was not ...

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on two new studies that hint at the evolutionary roots of human speech ... throwing a hand in if you want to get a little syncopated. (SOUNDBITE OF CHIMPS YELLING ...

He demonstrated capacities we did not know about chimpanzees; he changed our understanding of what humans share and what ... he would cover only one exit with a hand and miss out on catching ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive ... The long, curved fingers of the chimpanzee hand and the less mobile and weaker thumbs of some monkeys are also capable of generating humanlike, forceful ...