Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a new study. Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great ...

In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, it is clear that humans are not done fighting against the apes, which implies that the ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...