New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.
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In most primates one sex isn’t dominant over the other.
Chimpanzees’ turn-taking shows skills that may have supported the evolution of human conversation.
Recent research explores what drives this human behaviour.
The plants chimpanzees use to treat their wounds have been found to have medicinal properties.
It may be time to move on from species stereotypes.
Human language is not as unique as we think.
And a recent study found subtle but fascinating differences in the behaviour-emotion connection in humans and monkeys.
Advances in technology are making it easier to explore this question.
The study allowed researchers to assess the impact of changing zoo practices over the last 50 years.
The native people of South Africa revered baboons, but they became part of occult beliefs and suburban fears.
How apes make sense of actions is shedding new light on the evolution of a key component of human language.
Every human brain still holds primitive instincts that we share with our monkey ancestors. Is that part of your brain in charge when you cast your ballot?
A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.
The bigger the brain, the better we are at finding fruit. But is that true? A new study on wild primates refutes this idea.
Male proboscis monkeys are known for their large, bulbous nose appendages. It’s a strange feature to evolve – with new research shedding light on their unlikely origin story.
It’s a question of evolution and adaptation.
When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.
The scarcity of bat fossils is more than a palaeontological puzzle: it has implications for bat conservation strategies today.
Oceanic dispersal of dinosaurs between Europe and Africa shows how low-probability, high-impact events drive evolution.
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