This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

By Charles Mpaka Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Apes among the tangled branches of human origins. Science 327 ... 145-152 (2001). Renne, P. R. et al. "Geochronology," in Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash ...

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 ...