The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published Jan. 30 in the journal Cell, researchers focused on a class of genetic switches known as Human Accelerated ...

and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published Jan. 30 in the journal Cell, ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

The chimpanzees were also observed using tools ... The findings pave the way for future studies to investigate the evolution of cognitive capacities in primates linked to insect consumption ...