After investigating thousands of wrist bones, scientists suspect the last common ancestor species of humans and chimpanzees ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

Wild chimpanzees in Uganda split into two separate communities and later engaged in deadly attacks against each other.

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual.

Scientists have found that one of humanity's most familiar social habits may have much deeper evolutionary roots than anyone ...

Jane Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee intelligence. In 1960, she observed a chimp named David Greybeard stripping leaves from twigs to ...

As a great ape, the chimpanzee possesses intelligence superior to most animals on the planet. A chimp’s genes determine about half of its intelligence, while environmental factors make up the other ...

(Reuters) - Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. And these close cousins of our species, according to new ...