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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 ...
Great apes, our closest relatives, are vanishing right in front of our eyes. It's impossible to document what is actually happening in a way that people who don't ever get to see these magnificent ...
In the second and third studies, our great ape relatives were tasked with choosing between a transparent cup — with visible rewards — and another opaque cup with rewards invisible to them. Researchers ...
The oldest known human-like species likely walked on two legs as far back as 7 million years ago, a new study finds, and the discovery sheds light on what first set humans apart from our ape ...
The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during th. ...
A fascinating new look into the private lives of apes has found that chimps settle conflict with friends with genital contact, much like their bonobo cousins. This sheds light on where our own ...
Ever since the human genome was sequenced, efforts have been ongoing to sequence genomes from our closest primate relatives for comparison. But the genomes of other ape species are both large and ...
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 human ...
The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 ...