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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team found that primates — the group that contains humans, apes, monkeys, and lemurs — were particularly violent as a group, with the number of deaths being caused by a member of the same ...

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 ...

"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 ...

these apes cannot only understand language, but some of them can convey their thoughts and feelings to humans and to each other by pointing to any of hundreds of symbols on lexigram keyboards.

In Brent's search for Taylor, he finds that the planet is run by a barbaric race of English-speaking apes, whose mission is in part to annihilate the human race. Brent eventually locates some of ...