With stories of our living ape relatives using medicine and information about the evolution of adolescence and emergence of genetic and neurological diversity, 2024 research delved into the ...

we even share over 98 percent of our DNA. Yet we five great apes do differ significantly in diet, temperament, behavior, and other aspects. In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The remote population of orangutans in the Batang Toru forest had only been discovered in 1997. But it was Matthew Nowak, a conservationist with ...

The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape family members were living in the trees of East African forests, and because we humans live on terra firma, our ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Find out what our ape cousins can and can't do and investigate exactly what is in the less-than-two percent of DNA that makes us the human ape. The claim is often made that humans are really just ...