Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

Recent research has shattered previous assumptions about primate social complexity, revealing that chimpanzees and bonobos ...

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living relatives, organize their social lives in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a new international study led by scientists from Utrecht ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

Nearly eight months after the passing of Kanzi, the celebrated bonobo, more than 150 people gathered in Des Moines to ...

Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with our everyday lives.

"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...