It is the first example of wild primates having a booze-up on camera.

The first members of the human lineage lack many features ... implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ancestor shared with chimpanzees had features that were similar ...

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 ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

The work may also shed light on our last common ancestor, which lived some 5 million to 7 million years ago, before humans diverged from chimps and bonobos, he says. “Given that all three ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and ...

Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between ... to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing ...

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...

There has been an appealing suggestion that the roots of human altruism extend down at least as far as our common ancestor with chimpanzees. However, the results of this study challenges that view.

A group of chimps ... in the common ancestor of African apes was recently discovered. It suggests eating fermented fruits may have ancient origins in species including humans and chimps.