(Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans plus all our extinct ancestors and relatives since the split from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.) The Oldowan tools ...

Species: Pan troglodytes; P. paniscus Genome size: 3 billion base pairs; 2.9 billion base pairs Both sequenced in the last two years, the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo (P. paniscus) ...

Populations of common chimpanzees, which used to roam across 26 countries in equatorial Africa, have plummeted since the 1980s, and they are at risk of extinction in the wild. Fabrice Moudoungue ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...