Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

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

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to navigate on a daily basis,” says team member Zanna Clay, also at Durham ...

Studying how these distant primate relatives slow aging during hibernation may reveal new strategies for supporting healthy ...

As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant primate relatives share about 96 percent of their DNA with us ...

“Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos–flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia– making them fairly close relatives of humans.” Mixodectes belonged to an ...

Humans share this behavioural strategy with our closest living ape relatives – bonobos and chimpanzees. Now researchers, led by Durham University, UK, have undertaken what is thought to be one ...